The King Faisal Mosque is National Mosque of Pakistan and the largest Mosque of South Asia.
The Faisal Mosque takes its name from the donor: Sheikh or King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. He had it built in the 80s as a gift to Pakistan as a national mosque. Completed in 1986. It is the 5th largest mosque in the world with a total area of 130,000 square meters. Up to 300,000 believers can be accommodated here.
I probably experienced around 100,000 today (high number because of Friday prayers and Ramadan). It's unbelievable how calm and serene people are looking for parking spaces in endless queues before Friday prayers, making a pilgrimage there and returning after prayers. No angry looks or words, no rush, no nervousness.
We could take a look...
Unfortunately, I did not manage to step inside the mosque with its blue sky. Because of the large number of people, I would have had to wait about an hour before I could enter the main building. That was too long, we still had hundreds of kilometers to go to Gujranwala, and we still wanted to see the best vantage point in town: "Daman-e-Koh".