Qatar Doha | Education City Mosque

| The Education City Mosque. While walking on the streets of Qatar, you might marvel at how a country can become the richest in the world in terms of GDP per capita through oil, but what happens when the oil runs out? In fact, Qatar's answer was laid out twenty years ago—through education. Taking the green line of the Qatar Metro will get you to its Education City! Here, the wealthy have gathered 8 of the world's best universities: including 6 American university branches: Cornell University, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Commonwealth University, as well as the UK's University College London (UCL), and France's HEC Paris. Each school is responsible for teaching a specialty in a certain field to the wealthy. For example, Cornell is in charge of medicine, while Northwestern University handles media, and the birth of Al Jazeera in Qatar was not an overnight success, but rather supported by these talents in the background. The various stadiums from the World Cup the year before last have now become the supporting sports facilities for Education City. However, as a tourist, you won't be able to blend into the university, but the most convenient visiting spot is the Education City Mosque in the picture, as it is open to tourists. This is also the theological seminary named after the King of Qatar, outside of the eight universities. This may be the most modern mosque I have ever seen🕌—without traditional minarets, crystal chandeliers, handmade carpets, and colorful stained glass windows, etc. Instead, it uses continuous curved surfaces and simple lines to divide a huge space into different areas, and with a bright light color scheme, the facade glass made of Arabic script outlined in gold, stepping into it allows one to feel an alternative interpretation of faith~ Education must be modernized, and theology must also be modernized; this may be Qatar's plan for the future.