Roundabout Mosque

According to Rethinking Kuwait, Al-Shamlan Mosque in Kuwait City (also known the roundabout mosque) was built in 1922 and renovated in 1959. I took the pictures below in 2020.

Below you can see older images from: Britannica Kids [taken by Tor Eigeland/Black Star], Gulf Kuwait Magazine #1 1965, images from The Kuwait Urbanization by Saba George Shiber, Miracle on the Desert by David C. Cooke, an old postcard and a French book about Kuwait.

Here are aerial shots of the mosque, which come from 248, reddit, National Geographic article.

Here are old postcards found on eBay or Delcampe featuring Kuwait’s Roundabout Mosque.

The map below is from 1978 and was published by the Kuwait State of Commerce and Industry. The book “Business Man’s guide to the Arabian Gulf States” was published in 1971 and features an aerial image of Kuwait with the mosque visible.

The 1976 book “Kuwait” by Ralph Shaw also features images of the roundabout mosque.

These images come from this article.

Here is a model of a planned, but unbuilt, bus station from the MIT Library–you can see the mosque in the background

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