Turkey’s giant mosque to welcome worshippers in Ramadan 2018

Istanbul’s towering Çamlıca mosque will be inaugurated in the half month of Ramadan in 2018, which will start in mid-May, as the last decorations on its dome finish. Personally supervised by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s biggest mosque was under construction since 2013. The project, which also also includes a library, a museum of Turkish […]

Istanbul’s towering Çamlıca mosque will be inaugurated in the half month of Ramadan in 2018, which will start in mid-May, as the last decorations on its dome finish.

Personally supervised by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s biggest mosque was under construction since 2013. The project, which also also includes a library, a museum of Turkish Islamic art, design workshops and conference rooms, has been built on a 15,000-square-metre (161,000-square-foot) area.

The hand-painted decorations on the dome, which is 35 meters in diameter, are about the finish, Ergin Külünk, an official working on the project said, adding that there are still one thousand construction workers at the site for the last touches.

The world’s biggest finial which is 7.77 meters long and has a weight of 4.5 tons was already placed on top of the dome. The nanotechnology engineered stainless steel finial was made by a Turkish firm and was turned into gold color after a special process.