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Home Front: Culture Wars
Ohio mosque designed to blend in, not stand out
2011-09-27
Hilliard, Ohio mosque has no minarets, many windows to demonstrate transparency.
The feeling among the mosque's founders was, "We're in the United States, we need to do something different, we need to first make it do things that mosques ought to do in the United States, and also it's got to look like something that comes from the United States," said Farag, 49, who emigrated from Libya as a youth.
Wise choice. There is a photo of the building at the link.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  OUT: Mosque
IN: Islamic Cultural Center

Like "wetlands" used to be "swamps"...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-09-27 16:46  

#2  They can add the minaret later.
Posted by: gorb   2011-09-27 02:39  

#1  "..not just a mosque, but a museum to all things Muslim..." looking at the walls, reminds me of a modern concrete version of a late 1800's Army fort; something that will withstand an attack. like the Alamo.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2011-09-27 00:47  

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