Redesign of Salah Al-Din Mosque in Oreef village
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Date
2023
Authors
Abed Al-Rahman Harazne
Manar Shehada
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Project’s Abstract:
A place of rest and worship, contemplation and serenity, gathering Muslims in one house for
spiritual contact with God. Here lies the importance of mosques in the Muslim community, and
the importance of developing and caring for them. For this project, a redesign of Salah Al-Din
Mosque in Nablus which is located in the Nablus governorate and belongs to the village of Oreef,
and the aforementioned area is a Muslim area in the vast majority. Therefore, attention was paid
to the development of this mosque, which consists of four floors (a prayer floor for men, a prayer
floor for women, a center for memorizing the Qur’an, and a kindergarten).
During the initial examination of the mosque plans, it was found that the design needs an
integrative process between the architectural, environmental, and construction systems (for
example, but not limited to the presence of columns in the middle of the hall, which is annoying
to the worshipers and their comfort and their relationship to the preacher and the pulpit), so it is
important to find wide spaces that achieve the architectural beauty required for the mosque and are
structurally safe and the environmental importance of solar radiation, ventilation, sanitary drains,
etc., does not conflict with it(All including functional, economic, safety and comfort aspects).
A plan has been developed to modify and solve these problems according to the standards and
codes and the possibilities of expanding the mosque and to propose some environmental solutions
to take advantage of natural lighting, solar radiation, cooling, air conditioning, sterilization, and
ventilation systems and systems to facilitate the movement of the disabled and their access to their
designated places in the mosque, such as elevators or moving staircases, and the presence of private
toilets for them. These solutions will be worked on with the construction system and achieve
integration between all building systems to come up with a complete design suitable for the
mosque, its climate, and location, and to produce the final details and drawings (architectural,
structural, environmental