The Islamic Cultural Center of NYC (“96 St Mosque”) is NYC’s first purpose-built mosque.
All mosques prior to it were in preexisting buildings. In a rare show of unity, 46 Muslim countries came together to fund its construction. Its copper dome is now green.
Its architecture fuses classic Islamic geometric patterns with modernism. Some may find it to be much less grandiose than mosques in the Muslim world, but “simple and egalitarian” was intentional, so no ethnic or national group could exclusively claim it.
From the NYT archive: “Visitors to the prayer hall of New York's new mosque, at Third Avenue and 97th Street, must leave behind three things. Two are their shoes. The third is any preconception of what a mosque should look like.”
More Reading:
]architecture-a-new-mosque-for-manhattan-for-the-21st-century.[/url]
Its architecture fuses classic Islamic geometric patterns with modernism. Some may find it to be much less grandiose than mosques in the Muslim world, but “simple and egalitarian” was intentional, so no ethnic or national group could exclusively claim it.
From the NYT archive: “Visitors to the prayer hall of New York's new mosque, at Third Avenue and 97th Street, must leave behind three things. Two are their shoes. The third is any preconception of what a mosque should look like.”
More Reading:
]architecture-a-new-mosque-for-manhattan-for-the-21st-century.[/url]
