what looks better mosques or cathedrals?

[Mr. Tea]

its cool that its in such an unexpected location, this massive thing in the middle of a

CITY.

 

[IdleRich]

it's a feature of the uk that doesn't get remarked on very often. that there are these big statement mosques that have been built over the last 40 years or so.

sheffield

this is the one in east oxford, which somehow manages to remain quite inconspicuous, it's big but i used to live close to it and you never really noticed it was there, except that suddently on fridays there would be nowhere to park

reading, down towards tilehurst i think, fyi in real life it doesn't have a load of words floating around in the sky above it

I remember them building that one in Oxford, there was a big fucking fuss.

The Reading one looks like a shopping centre.

The best religious building in London is surely the Hindu temple in Kneasden.

 

[IdleRich]

a lot of those new ones shaka posted remind me of that thread we had about supermarket architecture. dreary high street vernacular. 90s office blocks. currys. pc world. out of town retail park.

The Reading one looks like a shopping centre.

Snap. So... who is gonna whip up a quick essay about how consumerism is the new religion, shopping centres the new places of worship etc the iconography of logos and the ritual of purchase when we queue to be anointed at the altar/tills as our forefathers did every Sunday during communion.

For a long time Sunday shopping was forbidden in the UK but eventually they decided to honour the laws on religious freedom and let the individual choose where they wanted to worship and which religion they truly followed.

 

[WashYourHands]

Paddy’s Wigwam/Liverpool Met blends architecture and generic rejected designs for Spars never built

meaning and origin of Scouse ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’

1968—Liverpool Roman Catholic cathedral—from the large number of Roman Catholics of Irish descent in Liverpool and the resemblance of the cathedral to a tepee

wordhistories.net

 

[IdleRich]

Not as big as some of those, but any Londoners that worship the female deity Jain are well served by this smaller but perfectly formed temple.

 

[IdleRich]

The Buddhist one in Wimbledon is nice. Obviously it's tiny compared to that Hindu one but if you go there it's a much more peaceful and pleasant experience than the commercialism of the other where you will be herded through with hundreds of other gawking tourists, instead you night easily be the only one there and you can wander round the gardens which genuinely do have this weird feeling of peacefulness I've never experienced before.

 

[sufi]

The best religious building in London is surely the

Aziziye mosque in Stokey

 

[version]

There's a comment under that clip of Orson Welles I posted in the Prynne thread where someone mentions that the interviewer described being in the same room as him as like being in a room with a cathedral.

 

[shakahislop]

Aziziye mosque in Stokey

that's great, that's totally in that iranian style isn't it, is that text turkish?

 

[shakahislop]

There's a comment under that clip of Orson Welles I posted in the Prynne thread where someone mentions that the interviewer described being in the same room as him as like being in a room with a cathedral.

so many of my lovers (of whom there are a large number) say the same thing about me

 

[Mr. Tea]

that's great, that's totally in that iranian style isn't it, is that text turkish?

'Cami' is Turkish for 'mosque', yes.

HAHAHA! I KNOW SOME-THING YOU-DIDN'T-KNOW, I KNOW SOME-THING YOU-DIDN'T-KNOW!

 

[IdleRich]

that's great, that's totally in that iranian style isn't it, is that text turkish?

That one is weird cos it has really mundane shops built into the same building.

 

[IdleRich]

There's a comment under that clip of Orson Welles I posted in the Prynne thread where someone mentions that the interviewer described being in the same room as him as like being in a room with a cathedral.

He was a little overweight I guess but that does seem harsh

 

[Mr. Tea]

'Cami' is Turkish for 'mosque', yes.

It's pronounced 'jammy', so sweet pastries sold by a street vendor outside a Turkish mosque are Cami donuts.

Likewise, if you're the only person who doesn't go to mosque in an otherwise devout Turkish family, they might scorn you as a Cami dodger.

 

[Corpsey]

Christ the Lord our saviour, who else?

Sorry about this, very low quality post I was tired at the time

 

[craner]

Sorry about this, very low quality post I was tired at the time

Shops

 

[sufi]

that's great, that's totally in that iranian style isn't it, is that text turkish?

it was an arabesque cinema til 1984

 

[sufi]

That one is weird cos it has really mundane shops built into the same building.

& a nice restaurant

 

[sufi]

deja vu

Beautiful temples in London (or anywhere really)

How could this be in London without me knowing about it? I asked the guy sitting next to me at work if he'd ever seen that and he said "Oh yeah and there's a nice Jain one in Potter's Bar as well". What else am I missing on similar lines? Don't mind the religion, just beautiful...

www.dissensus.com

 

[luka]

That one is weird cos it has really mundane shops built into the same building.

so does the east london mosque but the stoke newington one is funnier cos its a kebab shop.