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Type: Culture, teaching, religion
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Client: Muslim community in Iceland
The Mosque of Reykjavik is a public religious community-center situated in a large open green space. We believe this calls for a visually strong and simple volume making a clear statement in the context and a calm beautiful frame for worship.
We suggest a simple circular volume to embrace the multiply directions of the site and to point in the direction of Qibla and Mecca. A harmonious building from the outside and a compass turning with the Qibla on the inside – The Qibla Compass.