King Saud Mosque

His Majesty King Saud Mosque is the largest mosque in the city of Jeddah and is located in Jeddah's Al-Sharafeyyah District.

The Mosque was designed by Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil and was finished in 1987. It is mainly build of brick and covers an area of 9700 m² with the prayer hall alone covering 2464 m². The largest dome has a span of 20 meters and reaches a height of 42 meters. The Minaret reaches a height of 60 meters.

Layout and Architecture

The layout reminds of Persian “four Iwan” designs, such as the Great Mosque of Esfahan in Iran. The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan in Kairo in Egypt may have served as model for the minaret and other features such as the dekoration of the attic.

The mosque itself is rectangular, almost square with a rectangular court build somewhat offset to the west. Four iwans open to the central court. The iwans are not emphasized as individuall structures as in the Persian examples but are mere openings in a large screen wall. The north and south iwans are each set in front of a domed hall that separate four pillared halls to the east and west. The west halls are divided by two pillars each into three naves with to bays. The larger east halls have three naves with five bays and eight pillars each. The east iwan is the largest and connects the court to the largest domed hall that rises between the longer pillared halls in front of the qibla wall. Irregular shaped rooms fill the triangular spaces between the actual mosque and the outside facade on the north, south and east wall due to the fact, that the mosque is build at an angle to the street grid so that the qibla wall may point to Makkah. The west facade opens to the Medinah Road with a large cubic structure added to the northern end. The minaret of the mosque towers over the south west corner of this structure that has a large iwan opening to the south leading into a domed hall that connects to a corridor that runs along the west wall of the mosque. This large Iwan with the minaret on the left and the mosque connecting at a right angle to the right, both accessible by a flight of steps, form an iconic group that easily catches the eye when looking north along the Medinah road.

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Asif Khan
21 June 2016
Beautiful well maintained Masjid on madina road in Jeddah
Mazin Al
7 January 2015
Big clean grt masjid
Mohammed Khalil
10 June 2017
من أجمل المساجد في جدة .. تتجلى فيه العمارة الإسلامية الحجازية بشكل واضح وإبداعي
Aly Mallah
11 October 2016
مشالله تبارك الرحمان اللهم مسجد روعة اللهم ثبتهم عند السؤال و أكرم نزل المسلمين اجمعين
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5 August 2013
التكييف لا يفي بالغرض لأن المساحة كبيرة و الساحة مفتوحة
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15 June 2018
Alhamdulilah First time Salatul Eid @King Saud Mosque
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