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Masjids and Churches are typical worship buildings constructed to serve citizens in Egypt since more over two thousands of years ago. This research classifies the methodology into three methods; i) experimental work, ii) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and iii) cooling loads analysis. The experiments were performed to measure the temperature distribution on both scaled down models for masjid and church, designed and constructed using 50:1 scale down ratio. Both models were tested at three loading conditions at 33%, 66%, and 100%. CFD modeling was performed to study flow filed of (MSJ-CFD) model with two configurations 1, 2, each at three different cases. The summative cooling load profiles give that only is presented on the connected load of common district cooling plant which dedicated to serve worship buildings consist of Masjid and Church. The comparison between results of both experimental and CFD investigations are in good agreement at their different locations and they give that the average air temperatures inside both experimental and CFD models at 19 o C for 33% load and Case 1, 22 o C for 66% load and Case 2, and 24 o C for 100 % load and Case 3, respectively. The results of summative cooling load profiles give that for maximum expected total load design for both buildings together design case can be reduced to 160 % of only one building of them, instead of 200% in normal standalone case.The conclusions are summarized to help decision making during planning and design stages either for Church or Masjid.

This study seeks to evaluate thermal comfort in naturally ventilated classrooms to draw sustainable solutions that reduce the dramatic energy consumed in mechanically ventilated spaces. Passive ventilation scenarios are generated using alternations of openings on the windward and leeward sides to evaluate their effects on thermal comfort. Twenty-eight experiments were carried in Bahrain during winter inside an exposed classroom, the experiments were grouped into five scenarios namely: “single-inlet single-outlet” SISO, “single-inlet double-outlet” SIDO, “double-inlet single-outlet” DISO, “double-inlet double-outlet” DIDO and “single-side ventilation” SSV. The findings indicate that single-side ventilation did not offer comfort except at high airspeed, while comfort is attained by using cross-ventilation at ambient temperature between 21.8–26.8 °C. The temperature difference between monitored locations and the inlet is inversely proportional to the number of air changes per hour. The DISO scenario accomplishes the lowest temperature difference. Using cross-ventilation instead of single-side ventilation reduces the temperature differences between 0.5–2.5 °C and increases airspeed up to three folds. According to the measured findings, the DISO cross-ventilation scenario is a valid sustainable solution adaptable to climatic variation locally and beyond with zero-energy consumption and zero emissions.