There has been news of the construction of the mosque in Sengkang, the upgrading of the mosque in Woodlands, and the construction of the Islamic HUB (yeay, hub!) in Braddell. With such a great deal of construction going on, could we design prayer halls to accommodate travelling worshippers, or worshippers in transit and on the move?
Assuming you carry bags (school bags, laptop bags, luggage bags) to Friday prayers... In some mosques, there seem to be no room for you to place your bags, especially if you are caught right smack in the middle. Some examples include the mosque at Orchard, Tampines, Yishun, Victoria Street...
Taking this further, some designs too, do not seem to accommodate worshippers who have to leave halfway during a sermon, say, to go to the washroom. The Tampines mosque and the UOB Plaza mosque come to mind....
Athough some of the mosques mentioned above may not have plans for upgrading anytime in the near future, perhaps there is something more fundamental to this issue than just the architecture of prayer halls... A public consultation exercise perhaps?
hmmm....
Cheers!
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