After Underwater Hotels, It Is Underwater Mosque Now.

The construction innovations are nowadays not just about scaling heights by constructing buildings trying to break new records. Early this month Dubai announced that it is going to construct some underwater hotels and it was well received from the industry. Dubai has announced the construction of #-Link-Snipped-# where luxury rooms are immersed underwater. Now here is the first underwater mosque in history which has been completed by some Saudi Arabian divers.

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The divers performing prayers. Image Courtesy: english.alarabiya.net

This underwater mosque has been constructed by some Saudi divers and as they were applying the finishing touch to it, it was time for their afternoon prayers and so they performed the first ever group prayer in an underwater mosque. "One of our colleagues came up with this idea last summer and we decided to carry it out,” a diver Hamadan bin Salim Al Masoudi Saudi divers build world's first-ever underwater mosque - News - Region - Emirates24|7.

They constructed the mosque by using plastic pipes filled with sand and rendered a symbolic mosque underwater off the northwestern town of Tabuk close to the border with Jordan. With these two projects underwater construction activities seems to have a brighter future.