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Algeria to promote tender for construction of mosque

The Algerian government is inviting foreign companies to participate in the tender. Algiers Mosque will have a capacity to receive 40,000 faithful in a covered prayer room and a plaza for another 80,000 people, and will include research and culture centres, a post-graduate school, a museum, libraries, hotel, shops, restaurants and other installations.

São Paulo - The government of Algeria published an international call to tender for the construction of a mosque in Algiers, the country capital, which should also include a commercial, educational and cultural complex. This information was supplied yesterday (14) by the Algerian embassy in Brazilian capital Brasília.

The ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments of the Arab country is calling foreign companies to participate in the pre-qualification for the tender, which will include project design and supervision of the construction. "The objective of this great project is to once again transform Algiers into a spiritual and cultural capital, using architecture based on the classic and modern," according to the embassy notification.

For this reason, the complex should have a capacity to receive 40,000 faithful in a covered prayer room and a plaza for another 80,000 people. The minaret will have a height of between 250 and 300 metres, with various floors to include an artistic and historic museum and research centres.

The project should also include a 15,000 seat auditorium for conferences, a post-graduate school in Islamic studies and humanities, a cultural centre with libraries, media centres, amphitheatres, among other installations, as well as a 300-room hotel, a health centre, shops, restaurants and service offices, workshops and handicraft shops, parking lots, gardens and parks.

Although the ministry has not specified the area the project will cover, it has stated that the site selected has "several hectares". "All these structuring projects must have a typically Algerian architectural and urban appearance," according to the call to tender, published by the ministry.

i took this article from algeria.com, someone told me that the tallest minaret is 218 mts, this would make the new mosque's minaret the tallest one in the world, and if im not wrong it would also be the tallest building in africa(im not100% sure about it if someone knows please correct me) great news for algeria

[Bahraini Spirit]

Nice. The tallest at the moment is the mohammed the second mosque in casablanca (200m). The stalled saddam grand mosque was supposed to have minarets as high as 280 m (some were 210m). And to answer you, yes this would beat the tower in Joburg in SA.

This should give algeria more publicity.

[conquest]

Originally Posted by Bahraini Spirit

Nice. The tallest at the moment is the mohammed the second mosque in casablanca (200m). The stalled saddam grand mosque was supposed to have minarets as high as 280 m (some were 210m). And to answer you, yes this would beat the tower in Joburg in SA.

This should give algeria more publicity.

thanks for the info

[Moody]

did they take Dubai's peremtion before building the tallest??

[Pieter_Van_Classen]

Can someone put this in the African thread

[huit]

Thanks for details Bahraini Spirit...
Btw, have a look at this aswell: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=7594173

[Qatar4Ever]

Ten seconds later dubai annouces building the tallest mosque, only this one has wi-fi service !!

[huit]

^

[_BPS_]

I thought the tallest Masjid was the Hassan II Masjid, in Morocco?

[belgiumguy]

Originally Posted by _BPS_

I thought the tallest Masjid was the Hassan II Masjid, in Morocco?

it still is, but algeria wants to built a bigger one.

[empersouf]

No
Casablanca should have the tallest
It's not fair. Maybe it's an idea to built a giant mosque in Tangiers, with minarets of 300 mtrs. So tall that you could see it from Europe!

[hsark]

um this is great but what tech do u use to build a tower that tall and thin ???

[DG]

Dubai won't let it go easily j/k

well good stuff for Algeria

[conquest]

Originally Posted by hsark

um this is great but what tech do u use to build a tower that tall and thin ???

im also wondering that, but i guess it will look like the one in morocco wich is rather big and square

[KB]

looks like dubai has got a backup plan for every thing that gets tallest in the world :p

[icosium]

good project
should start any time soon 1 or 2 quarter 2007

La Grande Mosquée d'Alger: troisième au monde après celles des lieux saints

La Grande mosquée, qui sera construite à Alger et dont le Conseil d'administration de l'agence chargé de sa réalisation et de sa gestion a été installé lundi, est la troisième au monde après celles des lieux saints de l'islam (Arabie saoudite), et peut accueillir jusqu'à 120.000 fidèles (40.000 dans la salle de prière et 80.000 sur l'esplanade de dépendance).

La mosquée, dont le projet de construction a été initié par le Président de la République, M. Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA, disposera du "plus grand minaret du monde" (300 mètres de hauteur) et sera composée de dix étages. Elle comprendra plusieurs structures culturelles et religieuses.
Le minaret qui sera ouvert aux visiteurs, disposera d'une salle de conférences de plus de 1.500 places, d'une maison du Coran et d'un centre des sciences culturelles.

Trois bibliothèques et médiathèques, d'une capacité de 1.500 places chacune, seront mises à la disposition des étudiants, des chercheurs et autres adeptes de la lecture.

Les boutiques destinées aux métiers de l'artisanat, au nombre de 40, permettront de promouvoir le patrimoine algérien et de perpétuer les métiers de l'artisanat. Un musée dédié à l'histoire d'Algérie et plusieurs centres de recherches y sont également prévus.

Les visiteurs n'auront aucun mal à trouver une place de parking, puisque ce projet est accompagné de la réalisation d'un parc d'une capacité de 6000 places.

Ce complexe disposera également d'une école coranique, d'un institut supérieur des sciences coraniques destiné aux étudiants en post graduation, d'amphithéâtres, d'espace scientifiques, d'un hôtel de 300 chambres, d'un centre commercial, de restaurants, d'espaces verts et d'un parc de loisirs.

La grande mosquée d'Alger sera construite en plein coeur de la baie d'Alger, plus précisément dans la commune de Mohamadia, sur un site choisi parmi une dizaine d'autres pour son emplacement face à la mer. Elle sera le symbole de l'Algérie indépendante.

L'architecture de ce monument religieux et culturel est inspirée de l'art islamique. Tout en reflétant l'histoire ancestrale de l'Algérie et des civilisations qui s'y sont succédé, l'architecture de la mosquée répond aux exigences de l'époque contemporaine.

Les travaux débuteront au plus tard en 2007 et s'achèveront en 2009, a affirmé le responsable de la cellule de communication du ministère des Affaires religieuses, M. Abdallah TAMINE.

few link in english talk about it

[icosium]

they will start any time soon this project first or second quarte
let you know update

[icosium]

ALGERIA BIGEST PROJECT

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ALGERIA bigest project (project will be done 2009-2010

1 algeria 11 billions $ highway ( post thread )

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12252533

2 algeria railway upgrade 5 billions $

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=453090

3 subway algiers amount ?? (over billion $ ) project was delay in late 80 and 90 for economic raison and situation in algeria 90
post thread with map and some pic off project

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=446108

4 algiers water desalination (bigest africa ) 270 millions &

http://utility.seekingalpha.com/article/27951

algeria plan to have 43 water desalination by 2019

ALGERIA BIGEST PROJECT

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ALGERIA bigest project (project will be done 2009-2010

1 algeria 11 billions $ highway ( post thread )

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12252533

2 algeria railway upgrade 5 billions $

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=453090

3 subway algiers amount ?? (over billion $ ) project was delay in late 80 and 90 for economic raison and situation in algeria 90
post thread with map and some pic off project

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=446108

4 algiers water desalination (bigest africa ) 270 millions &

http://utility.seekingalpha.com/article/27951

5 The Largest Aluminium Complex 5 billions $

The largest-ever foreign direct investment (FDI) deal for Algeria was signed last week, worth $5bn, for a project to build the biggest aluminium plant in North Africa. The plant is expected to have a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per year, to employ 10,000 workers during its construction and another 2500 once operational.
other link bigest fdi algeria

http://www.mubadala.ae/en/content/press_87.asp


the Tramway (at the end of 2008) for ALGIERS, ORAN, Constantine * Manufacturing unit of Microsatellites (At the beginning of 2007) *
SUBWAY of Algiers (September 2008) *
Three lines at high speed (LGV) will be carried out in Algeria from here (2009) * the reorganization of Etusa * the realization of 3 new cable cars (2009) and the rehabilitation of 4 what exists as well as the refitting of the roadway system. *
Electrification and of modernization of the railway ways, 500 billion dinars
* 1 Aluminium Factory signal 5 world * 1 Factory Fertial Ferphos signal 5 world
* 3 Factories of Helium nitrogenizes liquid signal 5 world
* 1 paper Factory signal 5 world
* 1 Airport signal 10 World (and other A To come) * 1 Factory of glass signal 12 world

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...hlight=algiers

* 3 cities in constructions + Project (Boughezoul + Ghardaia + Sidi abdellah + Hassi Messaoud

* CHU of larger Oran and more modern hospital of AFRICA

* Hotels of Marriott Luxury + Sheraton Hassi Messaoud

http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/news/nati...434246821.html

* Tourism: ACCORD(Hotel IBIS and Mercure) 36 Hotels, Spain will build 120 000 Beds, Sidar 20 000 Beds etc... * 1 Crossroads in enormous Algiers and 1 with Oran * Greater center of part spare from the Maghreb and the Arab world Peugeot part in Algiers 14 000 m² (Opening on January 23, 2006) * SAIDAL (larger pharmaceutical company of the Maghreb)
* Enormous building site MAO (Is necessary to see it to believe in it so much C gigantic)
* bigest mosque of the world after the mecque one (SUBLIME).
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...tallest+mosque

* East-West MOTORWAY of 1216 km, will connect the 20 more important towns of Algeria. Composed of 57 exits, of 60 stations toll, 35 rest areas, the installation of 70 service stations, 70 stores and great surfaces, 70 restaurants, and around fifty of hotels... The LARGEST COMPANIES of the World are occupied of its REALIZATION. Remain A can meadows 900km has to realize. COût of the project 6,378 billion dollars (it is the largest ds project the field of the public works

FIRST IN AFRICA
28 October 2006
The Algerian National Railways (SNTF) have contracted Nortel to equip the El Gourzi-Touggourt line (418km) with GSMR wireless communication. It will be first application of this technology on an African railway


5 The Largest Aluminium Complex 5 billions $

The largest-ever foreign direct investment (FDI) deal for Algeria was signed last week, worth $5bn, for a project to build the biggest aluminium plant in North Africa. The plant is expected to have a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per year, to employ 10,000 workers during its construction and another 2500 once operational.
other link bigest fdi algeria

http://www.mubadala.ae/en/content/press_87.asp


the Tramway (at the end of 2008) for ALGIERS, ORAN, Constantine * Manufacturing unit of Microsatellites (At the beginning of 2007) *
SUBWAY of Algiers (September 2008) *
Three lines at high speed (LGV) will be carried out in Algeria from here (2009) * the reorganization of Etusa * the realization of 3 new cable cars (2009) and the rehabilitation of 4 what exists as well as the refitting of the roadway system. *
Electrification and of modernization of the railway ways, 500 billion dinars
* 1 Aluminium Factory signal 5 world * 1 Factory Fertial Ferphos signal 5 world
* 3 Factories of Helium nitrogenizes liquid signal 5 world
* 1 paper Factory signal 5 world
* 1 Airport signal 10 World (and other A To come) * 1 Factory of glass signal 12 world

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...hlight=algiers

* 3 cities in constructions + Project (Boughezoul + Ghardaia + Sidi abdellah + Hassi Messaoud

* CHU of larger Oran and more modern hospital of AFRICA

* Hotels of Marriott Luxury + Sheraton Hassi Messaoud

http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/news/nati...434246821.html

* Tourism: ACCORD(Hotel IBIS and Mercure) 36 Hotels, Spain will build 120 000 Beds, Sidar 20 000 Beds etc... * 1 Crossroads in enormous Algiers and 1 with Oran * Greater center of part spare from the Maghreb and the Arab world Peugeot part in Algiers 14 000 m² (Opening on January 23, 2006) * SAIDAL (larger pharmaceutical company of the Maghreb)
* Enormous building site MAO (Is necessary to see it to believe in it so much C gigantic)
* bigest mosque of the world after the mecque one (SUBLIME).
* East-West MOTORWAY of 1216 km, will connect the 20 more important towns of Algeria. Composed of 57 exits, of 60 stations toll, 35 rest areas, the installation of 70 service stations, 70 stores and great surfaces, 70 restaurants, and around fifty of hotels... The LARGEST COMPANIES of the World are occupied of its REALIZATION. Remain A can meadows 900km has to realize. COût of the project 6,378 billion dollars (it is the largest ds project the field of the public works

FIRST IN AFRICA
28 October 2006
The Algerian National Railways (SNTF) have contracted Nortel to equip the El Gourzi-Touggourt line (418km) with GSMR wireless communication. It will be first application of this technology on an African railway

[Massinissa-Algeria]

The Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Algeria awarded to the Astaldi Group the contract for the design and construction of 120 km (75-mile) of the new railway line between Saida and Moulay Slissen, for an amount of € 616 million, the construction company said on Wednesday.

The contract foresees also the design and the construction of 30 railway bridges and viaducts, 16 overpasses, 4 stations, a freight terminal, a deposit for maintenance activities and 3 interchange stations, throughout a track extending perpendicularly to the Mecheria-Redjem Demouche railway line, presently also under construction by Astaldi.

It is expected that the works will start by November 2007 and will be completed within 46 months.

Astaldi has been operating in Algeria for more than 20 years, and is presently engaged in the construction of the Jijel Tunnel and the Oued-Fodda motorway section, the Hamma and Akbou-Bejaja aqueducts and the Kerrada and Kramis dams, in addition to the new railway lines mentioned above.

By this new contract, the global value of orders backlog in this area amounts to € 1 billion, of which € 860 million as Group's share.

"By this new contract – underlined Giuseppe Cafiero, CEO in charge for industrial policies of the Group – Astaldi consolidates its presence in Algeria, a Country which started off an important infrastructure development plan and allocated appropriate financial resources to the same, for the implementation of which our Company is called to play a leading role".

Astaldi has been active for more than 80 years, in Italy and abroad, in designing and constructing large-scale civil engineering works.

The Group operates in the areas of transport infrastructures (railways, undergrounds, roads, motorways, ports, and airports); hydraulic works and power production plants (dams, hydroelectric plants, water systems, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, and treatment plants); civil and industrial construction (hospitals, universities, airports, law courts, construction works for electrical and nuclear plants, car parks); management under concession of works such as car parks, hospitals, urban transport infrastructure.

-Alarabonline-

[icosium]

up date

Originally Posted by icosium

ALGERIA

BIGEST PROJECT

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ALGERIA bigest project (project will be done 2009-2010

1 algeria 11 billions $ highway ( post thread )

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12252533

2 algeria railway upgrade 5 billions $

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=453090

3 subway algiers amount ?? (over billion $ ) project was delay in late 80 and 90 for economic raison and situation in algeria 90
post thread with map and some pic off project

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=446108

4 algiers water desalination (bigest africa ) 270 millions &

http://utility.seekingalpha.com/article/27951

algeria plan to have 43 water desalination by 2019

ALGERIA BIGEST PROJECT

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ALGERIA bigest project (project will be done 2009-2010

1 algeria 11 billions $ highway ( post thread )

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12252533

2 algeria railway upgrade 5 billions $

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=453090

3 subway algiers amount ?? (over billion $ ) project was delay in late 80 and 90 for economic raison and situation in algeria 90
post thread with map and some pic off project




http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=446108

4 algiers water desalination (bigest africa ) 270 millions &

http://utility.seekingalpha.com/article/27951

5 The Largest Aluminium Complex 5 billions $

The largest-ever foreign direct investment (FDI) deal for Algeria was signed last week, worth $5bn, for a project to build the biggest aluminium plant in North Africa. The plant is expected to have a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per year, to employ 10,000 workers during its construction and another 2500 once operational.
other link bigest fdi algeria

http://www.mubadala.ae/en/content/press_87.asp


the Tramway (at the end of 2008) for ALGIERS, ORAN, Constantine * Manufacturing unit of Microsatellites (At the beginning of 2007) *
SUBWAY of Algiers (September 2008) *
Three lines at high speed (LGV) will be carried out in Algeria from here (2009) * the reorganization of Etusa * the realization of 3 new cable cars (2009) and the rehabilitation of 4 what exists as well as the refitting of the roadway system. *
Electrification and of modernization of the railway ways, 500 billion dinars
* 1 Aluminium Factory signal 5 world * 1 Factory Fertial Ferphos signal 5 world
* 3 Factories of Helium nitrogenizes liquid signal 5 world
* 1 paper Factory signal 5 world
* 1 Airport signal 10 World (and other A To come) * 1 Factory of glass signal 12 world

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...hlight=algiers

* 3 cities in constructions + Project (Boughezoul + Ghardaia + Sidi abdellah + Hassi Messaoud

* CHU of larger Oran and more modern hospital of AFRICA

* Hotels of Marriott Luxury + Sheraton Hassi Messaoud

http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/news/nati...434246821.html

* Tourism: ACCORD(Hotel IBIS and Mercure) 36 Hotels, Spain will build 120 000 Beds, Sidar 20 000 Beds etc... * 1 Crossroads in enormous Algiers and 1 with Oran * Greater center of part spare from the Maghreb and the Arab world Peugeot part in Algiers 14 000 m² (Opening on January 23, 2006) * SAIDAL (larger pharmaceutical company of the Maghreb)
* Enormous building site MAO (Is necessary to see it to believe in it so much C gigantic)
* bigest mosque of the world after the mecque one (SUBLIME).
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...tallest+mosque

* East-West MOTORWAY of 1216 km, will connect the 20 more important towns of Algeria. Composed of 57 exits, of 60 stations toll, 35 rest areas, the installation of 70 service stations, 70 stores and great surfaces, 70 restaurants, and around fifty of hotels... The LARGEST COMPANIES of the World are occupied of its REALIZATION. Remain A can meadows 900km has to realize. COût of the project 6,378 billion dollars (it is the largest ds project the field of the public works

FIRST IN AFRICA
28 October 2006
The Algerian National Railways (SNTF) have contracted Nortel to equip the El Gourzi-Touggourt line (418km) with GSMR wireless communication. It will be first application of this technology on an African railway


5 The Largest Aluminium Complex 5 billions $

The largest-ever foreign direct investment (FDI) deal for Algeria was signed last week, worth $5bn, for a project to build the biggest aluminium plant in North Africa. The plant is expected to have a capacity of 700,000 tonnes per year, to employ 10,000 workers during its construction and another 2500 once operational.
other link bigest fdi algeria

http://www.mubadala.ae/en/content/press_87.asp


the Tramway (at the end of 2008) for ALGIERS, ORAN, Constantine * Manufacturing unit of Microsatellites (At the beginning of 2007) *
SUBWAY of Algiers (September 2008) *
Three lines at high speed (LGV) will be carried out in Algeria from here (2009) * the reorganization of Etusa * the realization of 3 new cable cars (2009) and the rehabilitation of 4 what exists as well as the refitting of the roadway system. *
Electrification and of modernization of the railway ways, 500 billion dinars
* 1 Aluminium Factory signal 5 world * 1 Factory Fertial Ferphos signal 5 world
* 3 Factories of Helium nitrogenizes liquid signal 5 world
* 1 paper Factory signal 5 world
* 1 Airport signal 10 World (and other A To come) * 1 Factory of glass signal 12 world

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...hlight=algiers

* 3 cities in constructions + Project (Boughezoul + Ghardaia + Sidi abdellah + Hassi Messaoud

* CHU of larger Oran and more modern hospital of AFRICA

* Hotels of Marriott Luxury + Sheraton Hassi Messaoud

http://www.ansa.it/ansamed/news/nati...434246821.html

* Tourism: ACCORD(Hotel IBIS and Mercure) 36 Hotels, Spain will build 120 000 Beds, Sidar 20 000 Beds etc... * 1 Crossroads in enormous Algiers and 1 with Oran * Greater center of part spare from the Maghreb and the Arab world Peugeot part in Algiers 14 000 m² (Opening on January 23, 2006) * SAIDAL (larger pharmaceutical company of the Maghreb)
* Enormous building site MAO (Is necessary to see it to believe in it so much C gigantic)
* bigest mosque of the world after the mecque one (SUBLIME).
* East-West MOTORWAY of 1216 km, will connect the 20 more important towns of Algeria. Composed of 57 exits, of 60 stations toll, 35 rest areas, the installation of 70 service stations, 70 stores and great surfaces, 70 restaurants, and around fifty of hotels... The LARGEST COMPANIES of the World are occupied of its REALIZATION. Remain A can meadows 900km has to realize. COût of the project 6,378 billion dollars (it is the largest ds project the field of the public works

FIRST IN AFRICA
28 October 2006
The Algerian National Railways (SNTF) have contracted Nortel to equip the El Gourzi-Touggourt line (418km) with GSMR wireless communication. It will be first application of this technology on an African railway