Sahaba Mosque

Al-Sahaba Mosque (the Mosque of the Companions of the Prophet) in the Old Market quarter of Sharm el-Sheikh is the principal mosque of the resort city and one of the most architecturally distinctive contemporary mosques on the Egyptian Red Sea coast. The mosque was inaugurated in 2017 after several years of construction and was designed by the Egyptian architectural firm of Fouad Tawfik Hafez in a contemporary synthesis of classical Mamluk Egyptian and Ottoman Turkish mosque architecture. The exterior is in pale stone and features two slender corner minarets with multiple muqarnas-decorated balconies in the Mamluk Cairene style, framing a large central entrance portal of red, black and pale stone in the alternating ablaq stripe technique characteristic of Mamluk and Ayyubid Levantine architecture. The main central dome is flanked by smaller surrounding domes in the Ottoman tradition, and the interior is decorated with extensive Iznik-tradition tilework, calligraphic panels and a large carved wooden minbar. The main prayer hall accommodates approximately three thousand worshippers, with additional capacity in the women's gallery and the surrounding courtyard. The mosque welcomes non-Muslim visitors outside prayer times and has rapidly become one of the most visited landmarks of Sharm el-Sheikh among the international tourists who visit the city for its diving and beach resorts on the Red Sea coast of South Sinai.