Key facts
- Affiliation
- Sunni Islam
- Sect
- Deobandi
- Ecclesiastical or organizational status
- Congregational mosque
- Leadership
- Mawlānā Abdul Aziz (Imam and Khatib)
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Red Zone , Islamabad , Capital Territory
- Country
- Pakistan
- Architects
- Zahir ud Deen Khwaja (1965) Nayyar Ali Dada (2010)
- Type
- Mosque architecture
- Style
- Modern Islamic ( Ottoman and Mughal )
- Completed
- 1966 (original) 2010 (renovations)
- Capacity
- 15,000 worshippers
- Dome
- One
- Minaret
- Two
- Materials
- Red sandstone ; marble
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mosque
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Islamabad
- Significant event
- Lal Masjid Siege
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- Commons category
- Lal Masjid
- inception
- 1966-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد, lit. 'Red Mosque'), officially the Markazi Jāmi Masjid Islamabad (Urdu: مرکزی جامع مسجد اسلام آباد, lit. 'Central Mosque Islamabad') is a Congregational mosque located in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The mosque was constructed in 1966 and is one of the oldest mosques in the city. It was also the largest mosque in the city for twenty years, until the Faisal Mosque was built in 1986.
Located in a very central position, it lies in close proximity to the two busy commercial centres - the Aabpara Market in the east and the Melody Market in the north and is a short distance away from the Presidential Palace and Prime Minister's Office.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lal Masjid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.