Turkey's First Mosque Designed by a Woman

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Zeynep Fadillioglu has quietly pulled off a coup: She's the first woman in Turkey to design a mosque. An interior designer known for jet setting ways, she nonetheless won a commission to redesign the religious structure in Istanbul. She even recruited women to help in the construction. Begun last year, the project was just recently completed. It's a fairly impressive building, subtly blending modern technique
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
<Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
The view from the balcony. Women and men are separated in mosques; men worship on the main floor.
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque
Zeynep Fadillioglu mosque

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