Madinah Grand Mosque
- Competition
- Second Prize
- Size
- 50.000 m2
- Location
- Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Client
- Knowledge Economic City
- Team
- Geoffrey Eberle
, Magdalena Mroz
, Miranda Ramos Mejia
, Tommaso Pannunzio
, Brian Woodtli
, Sebastian Coto
- Collaborators
- Aldowayan Architects
- Year
- 2026
- Press resources
- Press
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
A Journey Toward the Sacred
Madinah Grand Mosque is conceived as a contemporary expression of the city’s spiritual legacy. Inspired by the Hijrah and the mosque’s historic role, it becomes a place for prayer, gathering, learning, and reflection. Courtyards, shaded passages, gardens, and thresholds guide a gradual journey from the city toward the sacred, rooted in Madinah’s identity and memory.
A Journey Toward the Sacred
Madinah Grand Mosque is conceived as a contemporary expression of the city’s spiritual legacy. Inspired by the Hijrah and the mosque’s historic role, it becomes a place for prayer, gathering, learning, and reflection. Courtyards, shaded passages, gardens, and thresholds guide a gradual journey from the city toward the sacred, rooted in Madinah’s identity and memory.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
MADINAH / CIVIC AND SACRED
A Civic Room, Not an Isolated Monument.
The mosque is imagined as part of the city's shared life. Prayer, learning and encounter are brought into one architectural journey, rather than separated behind a monumental boundary. The question is not only how a sacred building appears, but how it welcomes: how a person approaches, gathers, pauses and finds a place within a larger community.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
Bringing Order to Madinah
In 622 CE, the Hijrah transformed Yathrib from a fragmented oasis into a more structured urban community, gathered around a shared spiritual and civic center.
Bringing Order to Madinah
In 622 CE, the Hijrah transformed Yathrib from a fragmented oasis into a more structured urban community, gathered around a shared spiritual and civic center.
Bringing Order to Madinah
In 622 CE, the Hijrah transformed Yathrib from a fragmented oasis into a more structured urban community, gathered around a shared spiritual and civic center.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
A SHARED CENTRE
From Fragments to Belonging.
The existing diagram moves from scattered elements to a shared order. Read as an architectural idea, it expresses the project's ambition to gather different paths and lives around a common centre. At Madinah Grand Mosque, the journey toward prayer is also a journey toward one another. Civic space and spiritual space are conceived as connected, not competing worlds.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
The Rose as Architectural Veil
The rose is translated into architecture through layering, rhythm, and filtered light. Its petal logic becomes a fa9ade system that softens the monumentality of the mosque while giving it a distinct Madinah identity.
The Rose as Architectural Veil
The rose is translated into architecture through layering, rhythm, and filtered light. Its petal logic becomes a fa9ade system that softens the monumentality of the mosque while giving it a distinct Madinah identity.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
THE ROSE / ARCHITECTURAL TRANSLATION
A Rose, Held in Light.
The rose is not applied as an emblem. Its unfolding becomes a way of thinking about architecture: layers rather than a single surface, rhythm rather than repetition alone, light filtered through a veil. The drawing and the architectural view place that translation side by side. An intimate natural form becomes the starting point for a larger spatial presence.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
The Rose Garden
The rose garden is reinterpreted as an inhabited architecture of layered petals, voids, and thresholds. The project transforms the garden into a spatial system, where volumes unfold around the body and guide movement toward prayer.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
FORM BECOMES EXPERIENCE
Petal. Threshold. Horizon.
Three drawings describe one unfolding idea. The petal establishes a layered edge; the inhabited garden turns that edge into space; the vertical garden carries it toward the sky. The sequence is a story of passage rather than a catalogue of objects. Architecture and landscape are conceived together, giving the journey from city to courtyard to prayer a continuous character.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
Inhabiting the Vertical Garden
The rose garden rises through the mosque as elevated terraces, shaded balconies, and inhabited edges. Landscape is no longer limited to the ground; it becomes a vertical public realm connecting the city, courtyard, prayer spaces, and sky.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
LANDSCAPE / THE VERTICAL PUBLIC REALM
Between Courtyard and Sky.
The garden is imagined beyond the ground. Terraces, balconies and inhabited edges carry landscape through the mosque, connecting the courtyard to its upper levels. These are spaces between destinations: places to look back toward the city, encounter another person or pause before moving on. The proposal gives the monument an inhabited horizon, where collective life and moments of reflection can coexist.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
A PLACE FOR SHARED LIFE
The Sacred and the Everyday.
The cultural ambition of the project lies in bringing different forms of gathering into one place. Prayer, learning, conversation and quiet reflection belong to the same narrative. The garden diagram gives that idea a spatial language: an architecture of unfolding rooms and thresholds. Madinah Grand Mosque is conceived not simply as a destination to be seen, but as a place to enter, inhabit and share.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
From journey to gathering. From faith to belonging.
Madinah Grand Mosque transforms the legacy of the Hijrah into a contemporary place of prayer, learning, culture, and community. Conceived as an extension of the city, it brings people together through spaces of reflection, encounter, and shared life.
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026
- Project and location
- Madinah Grand Mosque, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2026