{"id":56895,"date":"2019-07-03T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wevux.com\/?p=56895"},"modified":"2022-09-23T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T10:08:31","slug":"punchbowl-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wevux.com\/punchbowl-mosque0056895\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNCHBOWL MOSQUE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Local architecture studio Candalepas Associates<\/em><\/a> has completed a mosque with a decorative concrete-vaulted roof in Sydney, Australia. Located in the suburb of Punchbowl, the religious building provides space for 300 men and women worshippers to congregate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The studio<\/em><\/a> designed the mosque with a rectangular layout that has two adjoined but separate courtyards. These provide segregated gender-specific routes to perform required ablutions before prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once inside, the worshippers face a sculptural, stepped wall of ornamental vaulting on the prayer space’s south and west walls, orienting them towards Mecca. The 102 half-domed forms of the cast in-situ pattern allude to honeycomb structure of muqarnas \u2013 ornamented vaulting seen in traditional Islamic architecture. Streams of daylight extrude through a 30-millimetre hole in the centre of each of the concrete muqarnas. These are designed to illuminate the space throughout the day for the five prayers. Above the prayer hall, a plywood clad dome with an oculus feeds daylight into the space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Split into multiple phases over more than 20 years, the second construction phase will include a school for up to 175 students and offices around the larger courtyard. The Australian Islamic Mission (AIM) is a community based organisation, established in 1973 and based in Sydney, which fundraised to pay for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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