Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heritage. Show all posts

Monday, 29 July 2024

Glasgow Mosque

Friday, 17 February 2023

Manchester Museum Revamp

"A painted Bangladeshi rickshaw, a World War One uniform and flyers from 1970s gay nightclubs are among the exhibits chosen to offer a fresh view of South Asian culture in a new gallery."

Saturday, 20 February 2021

Cambridge's Muslim Heritage

Cambridge Independent, Shahida Rahman interview: 'My mother may have been the first Bengali woman in Cambridge'

"Writer Shahida Rahman discusses the small but significant Bangladeshi community in Cambridge, in a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence." There's a great website for Cambridge Muslim Heritage here

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