The British Mosque: an architectural and social history
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Tuesday 3 March 2020
(6 pm) - The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT
- Lecturer: Shahed Saleem
The British Mosque (Historic England Publishing, 2018) describes the evolution of Britain’s Muslim communities through the buildings they have built. The architectural story charts a course from the earliest mosques formed from the conversion of houses, to other large-scale conversions through to purpose-built mosques and with these the emergence of an Islamic architectural expression in Britain.
Lecturer
Shahed Saleem is a practising architect and teaches architecture at the University of Westminster. His particular research interests centre around the architecture of post-colonial diaspora communities in the UK, and in particular their relationship to notions of heritage, belonging and nationhood. Shahed co-curated the V&A Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 and his book The British Mosque: an architectural and social history was published in 2018 by Historic England. His design work has been nominated for the V&A Jameel Prize 2013 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016, and his research work won a RIBA Presidents Medal for Research commendation 2020 and was nominated for the Historic England Angel Award and the SAHGB Colvin Prize 2019. He is the founder and director of Makespace (a London practice based in London’s East End).
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