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Book SynopsisBeyond the Divide explores the mosques of Canada in their diversity, beauty, practicality, and versatility. Visiting ninety mosques across Canada to document the external and internal characteristics of each one, Gaber provides the first study to analyze these gendered spaces with architectural drawings, anecdotal experiences, and interviews.
Trade Review“As the first comprehensive book on the mosque in Canada, Beyond the Divide is a timely entry into the field of social architecture and gender studies, covering an important contemporary issue for Muslims and other groups.” Hasan-Uddin Khan, School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University
“Beyond the Divide is thoughtfully and necessarily constrained as a text, while addressing an important lacuna in Canadian architectural history and in Canada’s built environment. The surveyed buildings and their parallel social contexts of local and immigrant histories, peoples, ideas and efforts are given centre focus, and deservedly so. We have here, at last, a collected and more complete image of the history of Canada’s diverse Muslim communities, and of their attempts to build home, hub and community, in new geographical, climatic and social geographies.” RACAR
“Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design provides a critical contribution to the international scholarship on the architecture of mosques and the social roles they play in diaspora Muslim communities throughout the world. Tammy Gaber has gifted our profession with a timely, welcome, and first-of-its-kind comprehensive study of Muslim sacred/social architecture here in Canada.” Canadian Architect
