The largest mosque in Central Asia was opened in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

It is noted that the land area on which the mosque is located is 10 hectares. The total area is 68 062 square meters. The height of the large dome is 83.2 meters, the diameter is 62 meters. The mosque is four-tower with a height of 130 meters.

In the underground part of the mosque there is a banquet hall for 440 seats, an indoor parking lot for 405 seats, a lobby, a toilet, a place for technical and ritual services, a place for sacrifices and other rooms. In addition to the prayer area on the first and second floors, there are classrooms, a meeting room, a marriage hall, a Koran reading room, a telestudia, offices, service rooms, shopping shops and a museum.

The total capacity of the mosque is 235,000 people. Approximately 200,000 people correspond to the open space of the building. In the courtyard of the mosque, 170 thousand people can pray at the same time. Inside the mosque there are 35 thousand people, namely: 30 thousand people in a place designed for men, 5 thousand people in a place designed for women.

P.S. The opening ceremony of the mosque was attended by the first president of Kazakhstan — Elbashi Nursultan Nazarbaev. The new mosque was built precisely on his initiative in three years.