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The mosque, which has a 32-meter-high main dome and four minarets, was built with the Seljuk and Ottoman architectural understanding and has an indoor area of approximately 25 thousand square meters, a total of 10 thousand people pray in the mosque, 4 thousand people in indoor areas and 6 thousand people in open areas.
The lighting system of the mosque, which is located in Kırıkkale city square, received the "Mercy Award" from the International Association of Lighting Designers. There are social areas such as a conference hall, seminar hall, library and reading room, Turkish-Islamic handicrafts training center, religious publications promotion and sales place, classrooms, and family guidance office in the mosque complex.
The construction of the mosque, designed by Architect Necip Dinç, started in 2008 and was completed in 2015, for the Nur Mosque, based on the Edirne Selimiye Mosque style, a masterpiece of Mimar Sinan. In the mosque, there are four minarets with three balconies, which are dressed in the corners of the main body.
Sources:
https://tdv.org/tr-TR/proje/kirikkale-nur-camii/
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