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- Title
Sulla soglia dell'altrove La Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jummah Mosque.
- Authors
Sarno, Francesca
- Abstract
The passage from earthly to spiritual life is the metaphor that dominates the design of the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jummah Mosque. Built in Dhaka in 2018, it is the work of Rafiq Azam, a Bengali architect who leads the design studio "Shatotto Architecture for the green living." The mosque is located adjacent to the Azipur cemetery in the old city of Dhaka; positioned on the eastern edge of the cemetery, the mosque seems to subtract a part of the land from the site destined to the dead in order to delegate it to meditation and prayer. The place of worship, thus, assumes the role of a material tool to endorse the faith in immaterial eternity. The architectural elaboration responds to meanings and rituals of the Islamic religion but elaborated in a contemporary key. The contribution focuses on three key elements of the project and of this worship - water, light and nature - which, according to Rafiq Azam vision, correspond to the elements that guarantee vital balance in Bangladesh as well. Through the analysis of them, however, it is underlined how the mosque, despite being the space for prayer, reaffirms the intimacy of faith which does not need a place to be lived and professed.
- Publication
Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica, 2022, Issue 166, p110
- ISSN
0392-8608
- Publication type
Article