HAZRAT SULTAN MOSQUE

Completed in 2012, Hazrat Sultan Mosque is currently the largest of the five Central Asian republics. Brightly white, its silhouette is not without contrast with the surrounding monuments. Tauelsizdik Street is indeed located at the extreme built boundary of Astana. Beyond that, the gaze goes very far into the steppe. The last buildings, at the time of our investigation, were the National History Museum, the Academy of Arts and the Museum of Independence, all facing the tetrahedron of Peace of the peoples. Angles, shapes, dimensions: the whole curses a little with the more traditional lines and materials of the Great Mosque. Its 28-metre wide dome culminates at 51 metres high, 11 metres higher than that of the Nur Astana Mosque. The four minarets rise to 77 metres. The mosque can accommodate 5,000 faithful during the great prayers, and up to 9,000 with the courtyard, but it is rare to see it filled. Since its completion in 2012, it has replaced the Nur Astana Mosque, which had previously been the capital's main Muslim place of worship.