Friday, March 21, 2025
Tehran’s Grand Mosalla is expanding and will be come the world’s largest mosque complex, according to a contractor working on the project. A senior official from the Pasdaran’s construction arm said February 26 that the Grand Mosalla’s area will expand by 200 hectares as a result of the development projects now being carried out around the mosque. “With these dimensions, Mosalla will become the world’s largest religio-cultural complex,” Mohammad-Reza Rahmani told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA).
Rahmani said that Tehran’s Grand Mosalla is being connected to a vast green area in northern Tehran, known as Chahar Bagh, via an access bridge built over the city’s Shahid Soleymani Highway. He said the connection will expand the accessible area of the Mosque, providing visitors with more facilities, including more parking spaces. The official said more land in Tehran’s Abbasabad neighborhood would be bought by the government to expand Mosalla’s area.
Construction of the Grand Mosalla of Tehran began in the early 1980s upon a proposal by senior religious figures to change the venue of Tehran’s Friday Prayers from the University of Tehran to a larger place. The project later expanded to become a large cultural complex with authorities holding major annual exhibitions and religious ceremonies in the facility.
