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Photos from mosques around the world, showcasing women's sacred spaces, in relation to men's spaces. We show the beautiful, the adequate and the pathetic.

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@hyildizhistory He's the coolest abi in the mahalle

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@ZaidJilani Going back a couple decades, but Joan of Arcadia had one of the smartest and compassionate treatment of what faith means I've ever seen, with the caveat that it was def set in a Judeo-Christian paradigm.

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@jordandenari Congratulations, Jordan!

[Hatice Yıldız @hyildizhistory]

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@hyildizhistory Goodness. I'm planning to watch this film this week, so I'm bracing myself for the cringefest.

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@SumbzTX What on earth?!

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@DrDzenitaKaric @EdinburghUP @NicolaRamsey1 Congratulations!

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@ShabanaMir1 OMG, I don't even know what to say! Except, I feel so badly for those girls, but they are lucky you were there and ready to help them. Prayers for your, and their, safety.🤲🏾

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Women and men pray at Eyup Sultan Camii in Istanbul.

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Cuando Willow Wilson escribe esto mismo en 2014, se hace eco del proyecto @SideEntrance de @HindMakki. Exponer el deterioro de nuestros espacios y reivindicar nuestros derechos en la masjid, que nos otorga expresamente el Corán y la Sunna.

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The women's and men's prayer spaces in Selami Ali Camii in Istanbul
https://t.co/UKtVluF2Vl

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"Bleak, hidden and uninviting: It’s time to improve female prayer spaces in UK mosques" https://t.co/0iklGn3eF1

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Yes, and normalize asking for blueprints to see what a woman's experience would be like at a mosque raising funds for a new building or expanding their existing one.

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During the last 10 nights of Ramadan, many Muslims spend more time in Mosques in contemplation & prayer.

Mosque ceilings are designed to reflect the magnificence of the universe.

For Ramadan, here are spectacular details of 24 Mosque ceilings from around the world…

A thread…

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@RamisOrlu Yes. I hope it will become normalized in this mosque for women and girls to pray in the musalla. The main prayer hall is huge and outside of Jummah & Taraweeh, can certainly accommodate men and women at the same time.

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"Never before were the sisters allowed to sit and use the main Musallah as such - even when no men were present." - history being made during a teen girls' qiyam this Ramadan at Islamic Foundation in Villa Park, IL

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@ShabanaMir1 Even when men were not present.

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"The girls were even allowed to pray by the minbar"

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"Women never see this view. We are always on the mezzanine level. But because there were no men in the main musalla, Shaykh Noman said it was open to girls to use for qiyam until before Fajr. Their jaws dropped."