Masjid e Tooba
Sign in to saveMasjid-e-Tooba () also known as Gol Masjid (), is a mosque located in the city of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan. It is situated near the main Korangi Road in Phase II of the Defence Housing Authority, Karachi.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- Masjid-e-Tooba
- Religious building.native_name
- مسجدِ طوبٰی
- Religious building.native_name_lang
- ur
- Religious building.image
- PK Karachi asv2020-02 img57 Tooba Mosque.jpg
- Religious building.location
- Old Korangi Road, Karachi Cantonment, Karachi, Sindh
- Religious building.country
- Pakistan
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Islam
- Religious building.status
- Mosque
- Religious building.architect
- Babar Hameed Chauhan
- Religious building.architecture_type
- Mosque
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Midcentury modern
- Religious building.groundbreaking
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Masjid-e-Tooba () also known as Gol Masjid (), is a mosque located in the city of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan. It is situated near the main Korangi Road in Phase II of the Defence Housing Authority, Karachi.
== Construction == The construction of the mosque began in 1966. It took three years and was completed in 1969. The mosque was designed by Pakistani architect Babar Hameed Chauhan and the structural engineer for the project was Zaheer Haider Naqvi. The mosque has the capacity to hold up to 5,000 people. It has praying hall under wider dome without any pillar or column. The dome has the diameter of . The mosque is built over a total area of . It has single minaret with a height of .