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...It’s harmony,” Macaulay said. “You come out of these busy streets and windy little passages, and even if it’s a small mosque, there’s that space for quiet, there’s that space for reflection, and you sort of prepare yourself for the experience of praying...
...Macaulay sums up his reasons for undertaking this project in two words: Sept. 11. It’s not hard...
...tragedy’s aftermath, Americans came to better appreciate the link between a building and its community—how an architectural structure come to mean much more than the sum of its building blocks, Macaulay says. Mosque delves into this relationship between building and community by presenting an in-depth look at a socially important architectural structure located halfway around the world...
...When Sept. 11 occurred, I thought, ‘What do we do here? We have to do something to respond to this,’” Macaulay recalled. “I was working on another book at the time, and I just stopped—concentrated on becoming, in a year and a half, knowledgeable enough with this kind of architecture to be able to tell a story...
...very fact that mosques possess a personal, spiritual element outside of their architectural identity complicated the process of assembling the book, as details acquired a much more immediate significance, Macaulay says. The author acknowledges that the task produced an increase in self-imposed pressure...