A Yorkshire based glazing specialist has been commissioned to build Yorkshire’s largest ever double glazed dome for a new mosque being built on Horton Park Avenue in Bradford.
NG Developments (Normanton) Ltd, based in Normanton, Wakefield and one of the UK’s leading specialists in design, manufacturing and installation of architectural aluminium glazing systems has created a giant fabricated web-facetted steel and aluminium framed, glazed dome for Europe’s largest mosque.
The dome, which will act as a beautiful gold centre piece, is being created from high specification toughened laminate gold glass, tons of steel and aluminium Curtain Wall.
When it is finished the dome will measure eight metres in diameter and stand at eight metres tall weighing an estimated 13 metric tons. It has to be strong and secure as it will be supporting a stunning two ton chandelier.
Adrian Lee, commercial director at NG commented: “This is certainly an interesting project as it’s a real break from the normal glazing systems we install. It’s the first dome we have built and we believe it’s going to be the biggest of its kind in Yorkshire. The dome element is just the largest part of a wider contract to which we have designed and installed curtain wall windows and doors to the rest of the project. It really will be an impressive sight to behold once it has all been finished.”
The dome will be placed at the centre of two other larger, light-weight GRP domes and 14 minarets. The centrepiece contains 48 double glazed units of high specification gold glass each weighing up to 210KGs.
The mosque, which is the biggest in Europe, has been carefully created with bepoke stone-work imported from India. Each piece of stone is slowly hand carved 
with chisels which is the reason the project has taken more than nine years to complete.
The dome is currently being constructed in-house in NG’s workshop in Normanton. When the structure has been finished and tested it will be broken down and transported across to the mosque’s site in Bradford. It will then be rebuilt on the ground and then carefully craned into position.
The dome should take the project team between three to four weeks to fully construct on-site. The mosque is due to be completed in 2011.
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