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Masjid-e-Tooba

Masjid-e-Tooba (Urdu: مسجد طوبٰی) also known as Gol Masjid (lit.'Round Mosque'), is a mosque located in the city of Karachi in Sindh province of Pakistan. It is situated near the main Korangi Road in Phase II of the Defence Housing Authority, Karachi.

The construction of the mosque began in 1966. It took three years and was completed in 1969. The mosque was designed by Pakistani architect Babar Hameed Chauhan and the structural engineer for the project was Zaheer Haider Naqvi. The mosque has the capacity to hold up to 5,000 people. It has praying hall under wider dome without any pillar or column. The dome has the diameter of 212 feet (65 m). The mosque is built over a total area of 4,657 square metres (5,570 sq yd). It has single minaret with a height of 120 feet (37 m).

The mosque is considered to be the largest single-dome mosque in the world with no pillars in its central prayer hall. Its huge dome is supported on a low surrounding wall.

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