Purpose-built mosque at Europa Point, Gibraltar, gift from King Fahd.
The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque is an Islamic mosque at Europa Point, Gibraltar, in the United Kingdom. Gifted and funded by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, it cost about £5 million, took two years to build, and was inaugurated on 8 August 1997. The complex includes a school, library and lecture hall.
The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque, also known as the King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al-Saud Mosque and the Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, is an Islamic mosque at Europa Point, at the southern tip of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory. The mosque faces south towards the Strait of Gibraltar and Morocco. The building was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to the Muslims of Gibraltar. Construction began after a groundbreaking in 1995, took two years, and cost around £5 million. The mosque was officially inaugurated on 8 August 1997 and remains in active use. It is described as the southernmost mosque in continental Europe and as one of the largest mosques built in a non‑Muslim country. The mosque is the only purpose-built mosque in Gibraltar. It serves the territory’s Muslim community, reported in sources as numbering over 1,000 or around 4 percent of the population, and in some sources around 2,000. The complex includes a school, library and lecture or conference hall. Inside, the main prayer hall is on the second floor, with imported marble walls and nine solid brass chandeliers beneath a large dome, and a separate women’s prayer hall and nursery on a lower level.
