07-07-2025
Endowments ministry opens Lady Maryam bint Muhammad Abdullah Mosque in Muaither Al Wukair
DOHA: The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, represented by the Mosques Department, has opened the Lady Maryam bint Muhammad Abdullah Mosque in the Muaither Al Wukair area. It is located on a large area of land amounting to 5,467square meters. The mosque is attached to the houses of the imam and the muezzin.
The opening of the new mosque, endowed by Maryam bint Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Abdul Karim, is intended to be a beacon of worship and a house of God filled with prayer, remembrance, and the Quran. This comes as part of the Ministry's plan to expand and develop the number of mosques across the country, keeping pace with urban growth and population increase, in line with the country's National Vision 2030.
The noble endowment's blessed work is considered one of the greatest acts of devotion. It is an ongoing charity that brings endless reward.
The new mosque, which is a congregational mosque and has the number MS1430, includes a main prayer hall that can accommodate 989 worshippers, in addition to a women's hall that can accommodate 100 worshippers.
The mosque includes a spacious ablution area, in addition to a large number of public parking spaces, a number of which are designated for people with disabilities, with organized entrances and exits. The mosque also features a tall minaret.
The Ministry's Engineering Affairs Department is responsible for meeting the needs of the country's regions for mosques and prayer rooms, supplying regions with temporary mosques and supervising their preservation, preparing the annual plan for the maintenance of mosques and imams' residences, in coordination with the relevant authorities, supervising the preparation and implementation of construction and maintenance work for mosques, supervising the construction projects of mosques and imams' residences owned by endowments in terms of designs, technical and engineering specifications, and implementation, and preparing a database on mosques, prayer rooms, and their workers.
The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs' website offers a feature for searching for mosque locations geographically, using the Global Navigation System (GNS). This feature provides precise and specific maps that facilitate access to mosque locations in all cities within the country.
