Sacred vernacular, a look into the storefront mosques of Seattle
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First Statement of Responsibility
Patricia B. Julio
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Campbell, Christopher D.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Washington
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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165
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Committee members: Abramson, Daniel B.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-52023-1
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Master's
Discipline of degree
Urban Design and Planning
Body granting the degree
University of Washington
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Storefront mosques are a unique, emerging type of vernacular architecture that has been adapted into sacred space. A typical commercial storefront is a first-floor space facing on the street, its entrance typically flanked by glass windows for merchandise display. Muslim immigrants, however, are transforming many old commercial buildings into storefront mosques across the city and planners and scholars know almost nothing about them. Buildings such as warehouses, pool halls, defunct industrial structures, and former churches are adapted and staged into storefront mosques. Tucked into commercial corridors, storefront mosques are places of real meaning, mundane spaces transformed into places of peace, refuge and prayer.
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Islamic Studies; Urban planning
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Social sciences;Commercial buildings;Mosque and sacred space;Muslim immigrants and refugees;Seattle storefront;Storefront mosque;Vernacular architecture;Washington