The key points
- The project
- The strategy
- The achievements
By the will of the resident Shavkat Mirziyoyev is under construction at Tashkentin Uzbekistanthe Center for Islamic Civilization, designed to become a unique building of great cultural and educational significance not only for Uzbekistan, but also for the entire Muslim world. The structure – reads a note – is entirely covered with over 7 thousand square meters of decorations in mosaic – di cui 4mila in oro 24K – made and laid by Trend Groupa world leader in the field of glass and gold leaf mosaic, Venetian enamels and surfaces of engineered stone agglomerate for interior and exterior design.
“The creation of this cultural monument in a country that evokes the exotic memory of a prestigious past, a center of millenary exchanges and today projected towards modernity, has found in Trend Group a great affinity of purpose: our deepest vocation for the recovery of ‘ancient mosaic artisan tradition declined with the mosaic production, management and innovation skills developed in recent years – declares the president Giuseppe Fano -. The complexity of the executive design, the tight production times (less than three months from the approval of the samples), the logistical peculiarities and the complex phases of installation, carried out by our mosaic masters, has tested the commitment of everything. the team that was able to find not only the technological answers, but also interpret the architectural-cultural context of such a peculiar work “.
The mosaic realization made use of the Italian expertise of Trend Group, known throughout the world for references of absolute architectural and artistic prestige of the caliber of Clock Tower of Mecca, of the Sagrada Família, of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, of the Louvre-Lens Museum.
The facility includes a museum and several exhibition rooms, a library and archive, rooms for information technology, departments of manuscripts, calligraphy, Islamic heritage conservation, research and development, international cooperation and study of foreign languages, a laboratory for restoration of manuscripts.
The Center will have one of the world‘s largest original and electronic databases of ancient manuscripts, lithographic books, as well as historical records and documents, modern books and publications on religion and education preserved in Uzbekistan and abroad, as well as a library with multiple Of 100 thousand manuscripts.
A special place in the Center, which has the ambition to become a symbolic place of rebirth and integration, will be occupied by one of the oldest copies of the Koran in the world.