Also known as The Grand Mosque, looked to me as a fort when I first saw. It probably was the biggest construction I have seen lately. But it was just the beginning. It was not very flashy from outside. It was more elegant than glamorous. The grey texture of the marbles, that was used, made it look more like a fort. There were many small and big entrance to the mosque. The bigger entrances had two towers in both its side such as:
The exterior did not have a speck of dust. The walls were shining under the lights. It looks more beautiful under lights than at day. At day, it looks huge, as you can see the full extent of the mosque. But again, that was just a part of the mosque.
By the time we reached, it was already time for the Magrib prayers. The mosque was completely filled from inside. There were guards at the entrances to prevent people from entering, one's it was filled. Thus resulting in no chaos. Outside the mosque, space was limitless. There were people as far as I could see, preparing for their prayers. This is a small glimpse of outside the mosque:
However this picture was taken after the prayer. But you get the idea. Till now I haven't yet seen it from inside. Outside the mosque, they had marbled floors for about 100 meters towards the road in all directions. The surprising thing was, it was absolutely clean. People were walking with their shoes. Still the maintenance guys were doing a great job. They were always busy cleaning. It takes them around 5-10 minutes to clean a area of around 100 sq meter. They have specially designer vehicles to do that along with guys on foot too. This is how a cleaning machine would look like:
Most of these staffs were Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. We finished our prayers and then headed inside the mosque, for the first sight of the Kaba. That I hope to cover in my next article.
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