Education City Mosque
Twin 90-metre minarets and a spiral plan linking faith with learning at HBKU's College of Islamic Studies.
The Education City Mosque occupies the Minaretein building at Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Islamic Studies. Iraqi architect and calligrapher Taha al-Hiti designed twin minarets rising 90 metres, their surfaces carved with vertical script that draws the eye upward. Five structural pillars represent Islam's five pillars, and courtyard streams allude to the four rivers of Paradise described in the Qur'an.
Though it serves the Al Rayyan community as a working mosque, the building is also a deliberate statement about Islam and modernity. Visitors of all backgrounds are welcome outside prayer times; the main hall holds 1,800 worshippers and the courtyard another 1,000. The complex includes the Qur'anic Botanic Garden, planted with species mentioned in the Holy Qur'an.
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This is one of the few mosques in Doha where architecture is the main event rather than a backdrop. The spiral routes between college and prayer hall make the intellectual argument explicit: knowledge and faith are not separate journeys.
Arrive by metro if you can — Qatar National Library station on the Green Line is a short walk — and allow time for the courtyard gardens after you have seen the minarets.
How to find it
Education City, off Georgetown Access Rd. Green Line metro: Qatar National Library. On-site parking available. Respect prayer times and dress modestly; women may need a head covering.
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