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 "id": "building/faisal-mosque",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "faisal-mosque",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مسجد فيصل",
  "en": "Faisal Mosque"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جامع إسلام آباد على شكل خيمة صحراوية (1986) بتصميم التركي ودات دالوكاي — رابع أكبر جامع في العالم.",
  "en": "Islamabad's desert-tent-shaped mosque (1986) by Vedat Dalokay — the world's fourth-largest mosque."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/contemporary-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1986.0003285488408,
  "latest": 1986.99966460636
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1986",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "built": {
   "edtf": "1986",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q500983"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جامع في إسلام آباد اكتمل سنة 1986م بتصميم التركي ودات دالوكاي على شكل خيمة بدوية بلا قبة؛ سمّي باسم الملك فيصل الذي موله. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "كان أكبر جامع في العالم عند افتتاحه وما زال رابع أكبرها؛ يختلف شكله عن كل تقليد مسجدي عرفه العالم الإسلامي. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A mosque in Islamabad completed in 1986, designed by the Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay in the form of a Bedouin tent without a dome; it is named after King Faisal, who funded it. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "It was the largest mosque in the world when it opened and is still the fourth largest; its shape differs from every mosque tradition the Islamic world has known. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/faisal-mosque",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "اسلام آباد کی ایک مسجد جو سنہ 1986ء میں مکمل ہوئی، ترک معمار ودات دالوکای کے نقشے پر، بدوی خیمے کی شکل میں، بغیر گنبد کے؛ اسے شاہ فیصل کے نام پر رکھا گیا جنہوں نے اس کی مالی معاونت کی۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "اپنے افتتاح کے وقت یہ دنیا کی سب سے بڑی مسجد تھی اور اب بھی چوتھی بڑی ہے؛ اس کی شکل اسلامی دنیا کی ہر مسجدی روایت سے مختلف ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/faisal-mosque",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
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  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}