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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"mosques"”.
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The influence of Hadith on the architecture of early congregational mosques
… on the architecture of the major congregational mosques which were built from the rise of Islam in 1/622 to the end of the Umayyad period in 132/750. The thesis is divided into eight chapters. The first is an introduction which deals with: the reasons behind underestimating the role of ḤadÄ«th …
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Our mosques are US : rewriting national history of Bosnia-Herzegovina through religious architecture
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Atmospheric prototypes : rethinking spirituality in the American mosque
… context. The problem stems from *retrofit' mosques, or mosques which are adapted from previous structures not built as mosques. The retrofit problem, a contextual challenge for mosques in America, suffer from a lack of spirituality and visibility in the urban realm. The thesis is aimed at …
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Breaking the wall, preserving the barrier: gender, space, and power in contemporary mosque architecture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… the larger landscape of gender relations. The mosques of Yogyakarta, comprising Masjid Gedhe Kauman, Musalla ‘Aisyiyah, Musalla Ar-Rosyad, Masjid Keputren, and Masjid Panepen, and the ‘Aisyiyah organization (founded in the early twentieth century) provide a case study for studying how sex …
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Women places and spaces in contemporary American mosque
There is an ever-present demand for Mosques in American cities to accommodate the more than 8 percent of the American population that are Muslims; the majority of which are American-born Muslims or American converts. However, Muslim-American communities have implemented the same architectural …
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Smart Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
… consumption. For example, over five million mosques are thought to exist around the world. Mosques are religious facilities whose usage patterns vary daily in all seasons. Mosques are distinguishable from other types of buildings by their distinct function. A changing operation schedule from …
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Essays on the Use of Hedonic Price Models to Measure Welfare for Quality Changes in the Public Goods
… impact it may have had on housing prices near mosques. Using a unique dataset that combines the locations of functioning mosques with housing transactions near the time of 9/11, combined with a generalized difference-in-differences framework, we find that housing prices decreased by …
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An Acoustical Analysis of Domes Coupled to Rooms, with Special Application to the Darussholah Mosque, in East Java, Indonesia
… functions. A primary example of this involves mosques, which are sacred places of worship for Muslims. In keeping with the Islamic architectural style, most mosques incorporate a symbolic centralized domed ceiling as part of their room structures. These domes are open on the bottom and coupled …
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Preparing for out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A GIS scenario-modeling approach
… demand points; existing healthcare facilities, mosques, and schools as supply points; and the maximum coverage algorithm to model optimal locations for AED devices. Models were run for both vehicle and pedestrian travel times. Model results of current conditions indicated that 75% of household …
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Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque as the New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims
… spatial analysis with a focus on the major mosques and the practices of mosque congregants. It poses the question how French Muslims reconcile French secularism (laïcité) with Islam through the use of the mosque space. In this respect, mosques are transformed into alternative multicultural …
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Cultivating piety in the urban landscape : a study on the spiritual odyssey of Salafi women in Jakarta
… of Salafi women who frequently attend sermons at mosques using Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety theory. This study involves four months of fieldwork (March to June). Data were gathered by participant observation and interviews with 26 persons, including DKM Nurul Iman Mosque Management, Blok M …
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Negara dan Masjid: Mosque Architecture and Religious Change in Early Modern Period Java, Indonesia
… and Social Network Analysis of 109 Early Modern mosques from West and Central Java, I examine how mosques, as one of the largest investments made for and by Muslim communities, record shifting religious and political economic arrangements. Results show that while Islamic ontologies facilitated …
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Producing an Islamic institution: a London case study
… It develops an argument by Maussen about mosques in Western Europe, which suggests that they ‘do not have a self-evident, clear and constant meaning’. On the basis of a literature review, he points to how academics have shaped ‘the processes of the production of meaning’ regarding these …
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Memory travels : death, belonging and architecture
… embedded in urban spaces, such as burials and mosques in Britain and beyond. It examines the social, political and cultural ideologies and complexities of the historical past and present by focusing on death, belonging and architecture. It will show that the past has become re-imagined and …
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ΘΡΗΣΚΕΥΤΙΚΗ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ ΣΤΗ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΦΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΚΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ (1839-1912). ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ-ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΕΣ-ΤΖΑΜΙΑ
… DEALS WITH THE CHURCHES, THE SYNAGOGUES AND THE MOSQUES WHICH WERE EITHER CONSTRUCTED OR RENOVATED BETWEEN 1839-1912. (SHORTENED)
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The raison d'être of the Muslim Mission Primary School in Cape Town and environs from 1860 to 1980 with special reference to the role of Dr A. Abdurahman in the modernisation of Islam-oriented schools
… Blacks during the Dutch regime, and later in the mosques that arose when religious freedom was obtained.
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The modernization of Islamic art in the realm of architecture
… case studies representing traditional and modern mosques from an architectural and decorative perspective. By examining published materials and research papers pertaining to the artifacts and analyzing their features, this study attempts to answer the following questions: how has Islamic art and …
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Creating 3D models of cultural heritage sites with terrestrial laser scanning and 3D imaging
… important objects, such as fortresses, mosques, churches, castles, palaces, rock art shelters, statues, stelae and even landscapes.
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Penentuan arah Kiblat Masjid dengan metode bayang-bayang kiblat: Studi di Kecamatan Wonoayu Kabupaten Sidoarjo
… villages on Sidoarjo, there are is so many mosques are repaired from the construction or from the linesand from praying (Shaf). From many critetia which mostly emerge, researcher conduct this research to know the accurasy of the qibla of the mosque if it is compared with the medthod of qibla …
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Metode penentuan waktu shalat di masjid-masjid Kabupaten Malang
… paradigm. The determination of prayer times in mosques at Malang regency is already using the progress of science as defined in the literature review above. That is by using tools such as GPS, at the sun, bencet (bencret), and other tools. However, it has not been followed by all the existing …
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