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Mosque

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Revisit: Dar al Islam centre in Abiquiú, United States by Hassan Fathy

Based on Nubian architecture, Hassan Fathy’s mosque‑madrasa in New Mexico has been diminished by a recent, less subtle, addition

Islamic religious and cultural centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia by Bevk Perović Arhitekti

Beacon of reflection: Islamic religious and cultural centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia by Bevk Perović Arhitekti

The Islamic religious and cultural centre by Bevk Perović Arhitekti in Ljubljana stitches the city culturally and architecturally together under its light-filled dome

Dandaji 15 mariam kamara atelier masomi architectural review

Customs made: Hikma religious and secular complex in Dandaji, Niger by Atelier Masōmī

Al Islah Singapore Formwerkz02

Formwerkz Architects’ Al-Islah mosque: ‘Changing with the world while keeping fundamental’

Jane A Peterson and Jane bloggs

Juma Mosque John McAslan and Partners1

‘John McAslan and Partners’ Jumaa Mosque imparts a cultural authenticity’

Velina Mirincheva

Index

Profession of Faith: Mosque in Sancaklar, Turkey by Emre Arolat Architects

The London Central Mosque Gibberd

Gibberd’s London Central Mosque

Mosques of TamerlaneINDEX

Shah-Zindeh mosque in Turkestan

Princess Mary Gargarine

Essays on faith, death, and sacred space

The last page: the marooned church of Megalopoli

Remediation works: cleaning up after the Manhattan Project

Sands of time: the Dilmun burial mounds of Bahrain

Shannon Street Mosque: demolition postcard

Rock-hewn churches in Ethiopia

Heart of stained glass: divinity and wealth in windows

Soulton poems with an extract from Modern Air

Arakawa (1936-2010) and Gins (1941-2014)

Living death: confronting mortality and associated practices of care

Memory loss: post-terrorist sites in Norway

Britain in Seoul: The path to Korean modernity

Moscow’s ‘Program 200’: You’ve got to have faith, faith, faith

Plan Común: ‘architecture is a common field of knowledge’

Typology: Crematorium

Outrage: ‘if memorialisation is everywhere, it becomes mere virtue-signalling’

‘In deciding future strategies to accommodate the dead, communities are adapting ancient traditions’

Dying with Dignitas

Housing the dead

Editorial: Can design make a difference in a moment of paralysing grief?

Typology: Multifaith

‘Abstract forms were espoused more quickly by the German church than by industries’

View from Cyprus: Selimiye mosque’s identity crisis

Folio: Louis Kahn’s unbuilt synagogue

‘Architecture does not teach us what the sacred is, but it may touch it and draw others to it’

Typology: Tombs

‘To control Temple Mount is to control the political narrative’

Modern monasteries

‘Religious buildings are beginning to take on recognisable 21st-century typologies’

‘Key to understanding Hawksmoor’s work is comparing the whole and the part’

From Russia with Wood: Crumbling timber churches

Niall McLaughlin Architects win chapel competition

John Soane and the furniture of death

‘A church remains a monument whatever the spiritual or material loss from disuse’

Manplan 5, Religion Part I: ‘environments created in times of religious strength reflect man himself’

Manplan 5, Religion Part II: ‘Moslems, Buddhists, Christians: there is an underlying similarity of attitudes’

Manplan 5, Religion Part IV: ‘Buildings for Cult’

Manplan 5, Religion Part III: ‘has religion a future?’

Manplan 5, Religion Part V: ‘Church design has embarked on a process of fundamental change’

‘The hospital as an inflexible monument of civic pride remained so until the second half of the twentieth century’

‘Bombs clattered down on St. George’s-in-the-East – only the sturdy shell remains’