Grand Mosque Tour Part 1

The inside of the Mosque main prayer room (for men only) Women pray upstairs behind the wooden walls to the upper right.
This is an outside shot (Taken from a book) of the scope of the Grand Mosque.
Of course when one goes to the mosque, one takes off their shoes!! These shoes must be special prayer shoes because they were all lined up waiting.

Saturday morning, the Newbies took a tour of another Kuwait Must-See: the Grand Mosque. This is the holiest of the holiest places in Kuwait. During Ramadan, 170,000 men and women and children from KUwait and all across the globe attend the Grand Moaque for prayers. It also contains a 250 square metre library of Islamic reference books and documents.

The Grand Mosque is the largest mosque in the State of Kuwait. Located on Arabian Gulf Road opposite Seif Palace. Its area spans 45,000 square metres, out of which the building itself covers 20,000 square metres. The Main Prayer Hall is 72 metres wide on both sides, has 21 teakwood doors and lighting is provided by 144 windows. The Dome of the Grand Mosque is 26 metres in diametre, 43 metres high and is decorated with "Isma Al-Hosna", the 99 attributes / names of God.
The Grand Mosque can accommodate up to 10,000 men in the Main Prayer Hall and it has a separate Daily Prayer Hall for men also. A Ladies’ Prayer Chamber is located on a level above, which can hold up to nine hundred and fifty female worshippers.

I tried to convert the metres into feet for you Americans but it was taking too much time (and I have 130 tests to correct!) SO just know that this place was BIG.