3D print the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
A free, printable model of the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, with its ribbed central dome and arched wings among roads and green areas, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque is a Friday mosque in Muscat, the capital of Oman. It was finished in 2001, is built in a contemporary Islamic style, and is the largest mosque in Oman, with room for 20,000 worshipers. In 1992 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, then the Sultan of Oman, ordered that the country should have a Grand Mosque, and a design competition took place in 1993. The Sultan inaugurated it on May 4, 2001, to mark 30 years of his reign.
The building contract went to Carillion Alawi LLC. Work began in December 1994, after a site at Bausher was chosen, and construction took six years and seven months. The mosque is made of different types of stone, with doors, windows and embellishments of wood and glass, and about 270,000 tonnes of Indian sandstone was imported for it. Five minarets stand around the premises: the main minaret is 90 meters (300 feet) tall, and each of the four flanking minarets is 45.5 meters (149 feet) tall.
Inside, the square main prayer hall has a central dome 50 meters (160 feet) above the floor, and the dome is a major attraction for tourists. The main musalla holds over 6,500 worshipers, the women's musalla 750, and the outer sahn 8,000. The prayer carpet has 1.7 million knots and weighs 21 tonnes, and it took four years and over 600 workers to produce. The mosque also has a chandelier 14 meters (46 feet) high, made by the Italian company Faustig.
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 | 15 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 18 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 23 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Ribbed dome and small domes
- The central dome is ribbed, and small domes sit on the lower wing. Print friendly adapts these fine ribs to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Rows of small arches
- Rows of small arches line the facades. A bigger print size keeps more detail, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help the arches stay crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Sultan Qaboos Grand 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. The Sultan Qaboos Grand 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
The Sultan Qaboos Grand 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 Sultan Qaboos Grand 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. The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque grows with the print: about 15 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.
