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Keep up to dateBy Ike Ijeh2019-03-13T06:00:00
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge’s first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
What constitutes a British mosque in the 21st century? Should it reflect the domes and minarets of Arabian mosques or mimic the muddy, fortified solidity of North African ones? Or more radically, should it tap into British Christian ecclesiastical traditions and reinterpret the gothic and perpendicular styles synonymous with the great English cathedrals? Or should it do something completely different and create a customised architectural hybrid that represents something entirely new?
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