Architecture studio Shatotto has completed the brick Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Built between a main road and the large Azimpur graveyard, the mosque in the Bangladeshi capital city was designed to be a transition space between the busy and calm environments.
Shatotto designed the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque from brick
"The philosophy behind any mosque is to create a space for prayer, reflection and repentance," explained lead architect at Shatotto Rafiq Azam.
"Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque creates a space that acts as a threshold between the chaotic frenzy of life and the serene certainty of death," he told Dezeen. "The project's aim is to connect the celestial and terrestrial in a systematic and poetic way." The mosque is divided by the sahn
The mosque is split into two brick masses on either side of an open-air prayer space known as a sahn.
On one side is the two-story male prayer hall, while the women's prayer hall, toilets and ablution spaces for men and women, as well as the Imam's room, are located on the other. A bridge connects the two sections on the first floor.
The ground floor prayer room has mushroom-shaped columns
"The concept of the mosque was to create a transparent window between the two lives, the earthy materialistic life and the celestial life once our soul lives our body," said Azam.
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