Muharraqi-Studios is proud to announce that it has completed a new visualization for Ramadhan that will run on Bahrain Television that will run during the Holy Month.  The idea was developed by Khalid Abdulla Al-Muharraqi, the Founder and Chief Creative at the Studio, to rebuild one of the Kingdom's most recognisable historical sights, the Khamis Mosque, in 3D and to give viewers a sense of what it would be like to go through the mosque when it was at the height of grandeur.  The animations will be used to indicate the time of the Athan (call to prayer) during the month of Ramadhan.

The actual mosque was built over several periods but the earliest records date back to the late Seventh century A.D. when the mosque was first constructed during the era of Umayyad Caliph Umar II, making Masjid Al Khamis one of the oldest in the Islamic world.  Evidence of that earliest structure still exists but later expansions in the 10th and 14th centuries changed the structure dramatically and added wider courtyards and the minarets that are have become so iconic to Bahrain.

Recreating how it would have looked back then was a very difficult task given the derth of information and visual references, so Muharraqi-Studios studied many historical references both written and oral, went to museums and spoke with many experts in the history of the Mosque as well as restoration experts who have been involved in the preservation of historical buildings to try and get as accurate a representation as possible.  All of this research culminated in the visualization of the Mosque as seen in the animations for the Athan.

Five different animations were made for each of the five athan's and each reflects the lighting at different times of the day, the changes in temperature and the different ambient sounds as the day progresses.  Each animation is completely different and runs between 4 and 4.5 minutes long as they take the viewer back in time and through a tour of the mosque as it may have looked back then.

Muharraqi-Studios is proud to have developed this project that it will reach out to everyone in Bahrain and across the region during this spiritual month for Muslims.

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