The Education City Mosque serves Education City in Al Rayyan, Qatar, inside the Minaretein building of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. It belongs to the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, and the Qatar Foundation owns it. Mangera Yvars Architects designed it, and it was completed in 2013. The article calls the style modern Qatari.
It is built of sandstone and steel and has two minarets of 300 feet (90 m) each and one dome. It holds 2,800 worshippers. Five large columns stand for the five pillars of Islam and each bears a Qur'anic verse. The plan is an infinite spiral. A four-story ablution cascade beneath the mosque separates it from the learning spaces and helps keep it cool.
The design draws on the Islamic idea that all knowledge comes from faith. It won Best Religious Building at the 2015 World Architecture Festival. The article gives no visiting hours.
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