[4] In September 2018 the Gulshan Society Mosque was shortlisted for the 11th Beazley Designs of the Year.

A screen structure running around the building provides light and ventilation to the inside.

It is an abstract representation of “La-ilaha-illallah” in the Kufic script – the fundamental proclamation that there is only one God in Islam.

As the available plot of land was not large enough to build a mosque with the classic court-prayer hall sequence for that many people, the architect took a pragmatic approach and changed the usual layout of the mosque so that the stairs from the entrance directly lead to the main vestibule and prayer hall.

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