#mosque design
When Pi, the protagonist of the Oscar-winning film Life of Pi (2012), first felt drawn to Islam, it was not through a lecture or a book on the faith, but rather, it was by observing how Muslims prayed inside a mosque. Between the adhan (call to prayer) and the salat (prayer), there is a brief moment of liminal calm within a mosque. Worshippers are randomly scattered across an open space, some gathered in clusters with family members, others sitting in…
