3D print Faisal Mosque
A free, printable model of Faisal Mosque, its ribbed tent-like roof and four slender minarets, with green slopes and open ground around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Faisal Mosque
Pakistan's national mosque, Faisal Mosque, stands in the capital, Islamabad, on the foothills of the Margalla Hills. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, who reigned from 1964 to 1975, gives it its name. Work began in 1976, with Saudi Arabia's government providing the funding and the Pakistani company National Construction Limited carrying out the build. About 190,000 square meters of land were set aside for the project, and Pakistani engineers and workers handled the building.
In 1969 an international competition drew 43 proposals from architects in 17 countries, and the design by the Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay won. His contemporary design is an eight-sided concrete shell inspired by a typical Bedouin tent, with no conventional dome. Four minarets, each 90 m (300 ft) tall, stand at the corners, and the sloping roofs form a triangular worship hall for 10,000 worshippers. Dalokay also believed the design represents the Kaaba in an abstract manner.
Visitors enter the prayer hall from the east, across a courtyard with porticoes. White marble covers the inside of the tent-shaped hall, which also carries mosaics and calligraphy by the Pakistani artist Sadequain, along with a Turkish-style chandelier. Faisal Avenue ends at the mosque, on an elevated area of land beneath the Margalla Hills and against the backdrop of a national park. Taken together, the structure covers 130,000 square meters (33 acres), with space for roughly 300,000 worshippers.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 27 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 34 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 44 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Four slender minarets
- Four tall, slender minarets with pointed tips rise at the corners. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Ribbed tent roof
- The sloping roof is covered in fine parallel ribs. A larger print keeps these lines easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- Faisal Mosque is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Faisal Mosque takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Faisal Mosque is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Faisal Mosque STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Faisal Mosque grows with the print: about 27 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
