The Mosque Photo: The Mosque "Heart Of Chechnya"

The mosque "Heart of Chechnya" in the city of Grozny is one of the most majestic, beautiful and largest mosques not only in Europe but throughout the world. The mosque is located in the middle of a huge Park on the Bank of the Sunzha river and is included in the Islamic complex, which also included the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Chechen Republic and the Russian Islamic University named after Kunta-Haji. Opened in October 2008, the mosque is named in honor of the first President of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov.

The mosque, with a total area of 5 thousand square meters and a capacity of more than 10 thousand people, built in the classical Ottoman style. The main hall of the Grozny mosque covered with massive, more than 15 m in diameter, with a dome height of more than 23 m. the Height of each of the four minarets are 63 meters Is the highest minarets in Russia. The walls of the mosque, both external, and external marble-travertine, delivered from the Turkish city of Burdur, and the interior is decorated with white marble.

One of the main decorations of the interior of the mosque "Heart of Chechnya" steel 36 exclusive chandeliers that its shape is very much like the three most important Islamic shrines. Located under the main dome is the largest mosque chandelier (8 m) in the form repeats the Kaaba Shrine in Mecca, 8 chandeliers mimic the mosque Rossato-Nabawi that in Medina, and 27 chandeliers were made in the image of the Jerusalem mosque Qubbat al Sakhra. To create this exclusive collection of chandeliers with Chechen ornament gone to 3 kg of gold, several tons of bronze, over 1 million parts and Swarovski crystals.

The mosque was painted by best Turkish masters. For painting they used a special natural and synthetic dyes, which have the ability to keep the original color scheme for 50 years.

The mosque "Heart of Chechnya" with a beautiful three-level night lighting and stretched around a huge Park with amazing cascade of colored fountains are striking in their beauty every visitor.

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