This is my first completed building for the Medina al Musawrah collab at Brickfair NoVA 2025, which depicts a near-future Middle Eastern city. This building was loosely inspired by the Mehmet Agha Mosque on Rhodes, which I saw in 2023, and so I've given it the same name. Many of its namesake's architectural features are visible here, but they've been rearranged and altered to fit the look of collab, and my own whims. While the mosque on Rhodes was my main inspiration, I have seen a great deal of Moorish Architecture in my travels, and drew inspiration from many other places too, especially Morocco and Turkey.
There is an Easter egg hiding in plain sight. While in Morocco, I bought a hand-made carpet, which now lives in our living room. The carpet displayed unfurled in the ground floor carpet shop is a custom sticker that I created from a photo of my own carpet; and the minifig looking at it is my own sigfig.
The namesake has shops on the ground floor, which I replicated; and I added a ramshackle hookah bar on the roof to fit the deliberately chaotic look of the city. The namesake is no longer in use as a mosque at all. This build added several more floors, so there is plenty of space for one to take up part of the building, but I left it to the imagination.
While it has only been three weeks since I posted the Hashimacorp Tower, I have not become miraculously fast at building. I started this build in September, and worked on it at the same time as I was putting the finishing touches on the tower, especially as I neared the end and the tower became more frequently stalled by Bricklink orders.
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