Selected Work · 005 · Religious · Sanctuary

Siddiqa Fatima Zahra Mosque

Client
Private trust
Location
Mahboula, Kuwait
Year
2020
Type
Religious · Sanctuary
Scope
GRG dome · Specialty paint
Area
3,200 m²

The brief

A purpose-built sanctuary in Mahboula. Dome, coffers, calligraphic banding, and a mihrab — finished entirely in-house.

A mosque ceiling carries the eye up when the body is still. The dome has to feel drawn, not painted — every coffer a repeated hand-mark. We cast it in gypsum in our workshop, moved it at night, lifted it whole.

Cast in-house, lifted whole

Sixty-two coffer segments were cast at the Amghara workshop, tooled by hand, and lifted into place in a two-week sequence. On site, the dome was painted in situ with a three-coat antique-gold finish, pigmented varnish sealed.

  • Dome diameter — 12 m
  • Coffer segments — 62 · GRG cast
  • Paint — Antique gold · 3 coats
  • Finish — Pigmented varnish lockdown
  • 62 Coffer segments
  • 210 d Days on site
  • 3 Paint coats · gold
  • 100% Cast in-house
Siddiqa Fatima Zahra Mosque — sanctuary interior with GRG dome viewed from the floor Siddiqa Fatima Zahra Mosque — exterior minaret and entrance facade Siddiqa Fatima Zahra Mosque — coffer segment detail and ornamental banding
"Every coffer in that dome was set within a millimetre of the section. The trust’s engineers didn’t believe it was cast in Kuwait." — Site engineer (Mosque project · 2020)

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