More than 600 concrete columns for the world’s third largest mosque

Figure: KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

One of the largest mosques ever with the world’s tallest minaret is being built in the Bay of Algiers at present

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The 618 spun concrete columns produced by the German manufacturer Europoles are the characteristic elements of the entire complex

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Europoles Project Manager, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Biederer, presents a sample column true to original at the Neumarkt production site

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A total of 618 octag-onal architectural concrete columns are prefabricated on the spinning beds in Upper Palatinate for the third largest mosque in the world

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All precast concrete columns required for the construction project arrive from Germany in Algeria’s capital city by sea

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The longest columns consist of three sections each 12 m long

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View into the future prayer room covering 22,000 m², the first concrete columns are exposed

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Project Manager, Manyl Riad Mekdade, inspects the surface quality of the spun concrete columns on site

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Elastic textured formliners of NOE Schaltechnik GmbH integrated at the precast plant ...

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... provide for the star-shaped relief structure of the mosque columns already in the spinning process ...

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... presenting itself like this when installed after the removal of the Delta Maxx protective foil

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One of the largest mosques ever built with a prayer room covering 22,000 m² and the world’s tallest minaret soaring 265 m high is under construction in the Bay of Algiers at present. The load-bearing spun concrete columns were produced by the manufacturer Europoles based in the German city of Neumarkt and shipped by vessel to the Algerian capital city.

Designed by the German architecture office KSP Jürgen Engel on behalf of the Algerian government, the Djamaa el-Djazair mosque is being built in the Bay of Algiers, being Africa’s biggest one and the third largest in the world. The 265 m high minaret will by far be taller than the previous record holder in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. The China State Construction Engineering (CSCEC), an internationally leading general contractor, was commissioned with the construction works.

It is intended to create a building structure on a total floor area of 375,000 m2 with roughly 1.8 million m³ of...