East and West mosques. Influences and contamination (original) (raw)

The phenomenon of migration has also influenced the approach to architecture, in particular the character and language of the buildings. A theme, very complex, which is suitable to prove this thesis is the theme of the mosque. E 'must first be clarified that the mosque is not a public building, but a collective building, linked to the ritual. The mosque is in fact representation of Islamic religious precepts. The knowledge of the Muslim ritual leads us to reflect about strong connection between the ritual process and disposition of the architectural elements that define the spaces of the mosque. Religious architectural tradition provides many examples. It leaves from ancient mosque, the house of Muhammad in Medina and it develops over time through two typological groups: hypostyle and aula.In the contemporary, the frequent migration, the multiplicity of cultural identity and the presence of Muslims in Western cities have first raised the issue of the construction of Islamic religious spaces, and along with an update provided to the times (higher tolerance to share space for prayer men and women together, the elimination of the minaret in some mosques) opened the issue-which now seems clear for a change of the architectural language in the design of such buildings, which often overcomes the geographical limits and find references to different cultures. Examples of mosques with "Western" language built in the East, and mosques that refer to Islamic tradition, built in the West, are the proof. The reflection about the theme. The rite The sacred architecture always deserves a special reflection on the theme. A sacred building is primarily a place of prayer, and this unites such a church, a mosque, a synagogue. These buildings take shape by the rite-in Latin ritu(m) from the same linguistic root of the greek arithmos (number)and of the sanskrit rtám (order, according to what requires religion). The differences between the rites distinguishe sacred buildings. One of the first religious buildings does not provide for a ritual. The temple in fact, in the classical world, is not built for the celebration of a rite but to worship one God. It is not a place to host the "staging" of a celebratory ritual but it is God's abode. Precisely in the ritual lies the original core of many activities such as religion, the game, the spectacle.The first building constructed for the celebration of a rite is the telesterion at Eleusis, which were held mythological eulesinian mysteries. Devoted to Demeter and Persephone , these initiation ceremonies were the most sacred and ancient of all the religious rites celebrated in Greece. This theatricalisation of