| The jury commended the architect "for the effort to compose formal elements in ways that bespeak the present and at the same time reflect the luminous past of Islamic societies | Technologically, this building reflects the architect's extensive research in the methods whereby Egyptian mosques of the traditional high culture were built |
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| Classically Islamic in form, it has been rethought and transformed to serve contemporary purposes | The prayer hall itself is at the centre of a composition that includes the mihrab, projecting outward from the eastern wall just below an oculus, an entrance porch covered by a catenary vault and a square-based minaret with an octagonal shaft |
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