Just a quick link this evening. The Mosques of New York City is a review of a book about the architectural aspects of NYC mosques. The author explains why she began this study:
We entered into this study … with the idea of bearing witness to some of the dozens of communities of New Yorkers who practice Islam, through the architecture which serves them as collectives within the city. This creation of shared space, this building up of neighborhoods seemed to answer the destructive and exploitative image the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 spawned.Of course, since the project began, NYC has also suffered the terrible destructiveness of 9/11, which is given mention in the review.