Uzbekistan, an Italian company made mosaics for the new Center for Islamic Civilization

An Italian company will fira the mosaic decorations of the large Center for Islamic Civilization under construction in Tashkent, capital ofUzbekistan, an Asian republic at the center of the Great Silk Road and strong with a remarkable cultural heritage that the country intends to enhance. The Center for Islamic Civilization, strongly desired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, is intended to be a building of great significance for the entire Muslim world. In fact, the structure is entirely covered with more than 7 thousand square meters of mosaic decorations, including 4 thousand in 24-carat gold, made and installed by Trend Group, a world leader in glass and gold leaf mosaics, Venetian enamels and engineered stone agglomerate surfaces for interior and exterior design.

Trend Group, known worldwide for its past work on the Basilica San Marco in Venice, the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, the Louvre-Lens and the Tower of theClock in Mecca, has provided its expertise in decorating a complex structure that echoes the outlines of Uzbekistan’s historic buildings and includes a museum and several exhibition halls, a library and archive, information technology rooms, departments of manuscripts, calligraphy, Islamic heritage conservation, research and development, international cooperation and foreign language study, and a laboratory for manuscript restoration.

The center will also have one of the world’s largest original and electronic databases of ancient manuscripts, lithographic books, as well as historical acts and documents, modern books and publications on religion and education preserved in Uzbekistan and abroad, and a library with more than 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. “The idea is very simple,” explained President Mirziyoyev: “It wants to show that Islam is the religion of intelligence, peace and enlightenment, not the religion of terrorism or fundamentalism. We believe that anyone who visits this center will understand this.”

“The realization of this monument of culture in a country that evokes the exotic memory of a prestigious past, a center of millennial exchanges and today projected to modernity,” explains Giuseppe Fano, president of Trend, “has found in Trend Group great affinity of intent: our deepest vocation for the recovery of the ancient mosaic craft tradition declined with the production, management and mosaic innovation skills developed in recent years. The complexity of the executive design, the tight production time (less than three months from the approval of the samples), the logistical peculiarities and the complex phases of the installation, carried out by our master mosaicists, tested the commitment of the whole team that was able to find not only the technological answers, but also to interpret the architectural-cultural context of such a peculiar work.”

Islamic Civilization

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Center of Islamic Civilization of Tashkent

Center of Islamic Civilization of Tashkent

Uzbekistan, an Italian company made mosaics for the new Center for Islamic Civilization

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