Religious · Contemporary
Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury · Dhaka, Bangladesh · 2017
Key featuresPerforated concrete skin on a tight urban plot, stacking prayer halls lit by filtered daylight.
The Gulshan Society Mosque, also called Gulshan Society Jame Masjid (Bengali: গুলশান সোসাইটি জামে মসজিদ), is a mosque in Gulshan, a neighbourhood in Dhaka. It was planned by Kashef Chowdhury and completed in 2017 for Gulshan Society.
The seven-story-high modern building is constructed to give the impression of a monolith. It is made of white cast concrete. 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. The building was planned to accommodate a congregation of 2500. 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. Upper floors are accessible by elevators as well as by stairs.
Shortened from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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