Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Rawḍah mosque

Greensville Trust, The Making of an English Gothic Mosque "This short documentary takes a look behind the scenes during the early stages of the development of the Rawḍah mosque at Muṣṭafā Mount in Bradford." A very interesting clip. (tip: Yahya Birt)

Friday, 23 March 2012

Peterborough’s Ghousia Mosque

peterboroughtoday.co.uk, Peterborough’s Ghousia Mosque in English Heritage book, 20 Mar 2012 "The Ghousia Mosque, in Gladstone Street, is going from holy books to the history books after it was selected for a publication being compiled by English Heritage, the Government’s adviser about the UK’s historic environment.

 "The book, which has as its working title The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History, will examine the social, cultural, and architectural significance of mosques across the country."

Ghousia Mosque

Also see more on this interesting English Heritage project: ‘The British Mosque: a social and architectural history‘ by Shahed Saleem

Friday, 16 September 2011

Modernist Islamic Architecture

arabnews.com, Modernist Islamic Architecture: Toward preserving a migrant past, 14 Sep 2011

"Understanding the evolution of the mosque, people’s relation to it and communal reaction have all played a big role in the new aesthetic MakeSpace is developing. “I think it is important that architecture talks about the present, about where it is and what it is, about the society that it is in,” he says. “Muslim British society is complex and layered. With each generation you get vast cultural changes; it is the new generations that dominate the Muslim landscape.”"

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Bradford's "most beautiful minaret"

Ahl ul-Bayt News Agency, Bradford mosque wins 'most beautiful minaret in Europe' prize, 21 Apr 2010, "Bradford's Madni mosque, in northern England, has beaten 50 others to win the title of "Europe's most beautiful minaret," the European parliament was told Tuesday."

Also see icea.org, Model Mosque of Britain
I obtained the photo from there.