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The Islamic Cultural Centre of New York is a mosque and an Islamic cultural centre in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is located at 1711 Third Avenue, between East 96th and 97th Streets. The Islamic Cultural Centre was one of the first mosques built in New York City. The mosque’s older dwelling in a townhouse at 1 Riverside Drive is still in continual prayer use as a satellite location.

The Islamic Cultural Centre was the first mosque and religious centre built specifically for New York’s growing Muslim community. Its design represents the rich and varied Muslim traditions in a contemporary context, relying on the use of geometric principles that formulate the basis of both Islamic and Modern architectural vocabularies.

The centre comprises a mosque, assembly space, and minaret. Following religious law, the prayer hall is oriented toward Mecca, a rotation of 29 degrees from Manhattan’s orthogonal street grid. A structural system of four intersecting steel trusses supports the mosque’s dome and allows for a column-free interior hall.

A play between solid granite and diaphanous glass elements characterizes the building’s exterior and interior. Light enters the building at various points — through glass inset strips in the façade, through a glass reveal beneath the dome and through clerestory windows with fritted ceramic patterns — to emphasize a progression through the space.

References

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Mosque Data

Architect

Type

Central

Country

United States

Owner/Founder

Year

1991

Area

6454 m2

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Mosque Data

Architect

Type

Central

Country

United States

Owner/
Founder

Year

1991

Area

6454 m2

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