Building Futures: The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque - Shahed Saleem sound The text and photographic sequences

The text and photographic sequences are interspersed with an anonymous handwritten eighteenth century cookbook from Cambridge

Emerging from a space and time that many prefer to forget

selflessness

cultural and environmental roles of mending in a throwaway world

and the diary of his Hollywood trip in 1979 for Alien’s Oscar win

Building Futures: The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque - Shahed Saleem sound The text and photographic sequencesBuilding Futures brings together Shahed Saleems written and visual research on the British Mosque, to narrate how mosques have emerged, evolved and become established in Britain since the late nineteenth century. Critical texts describe the ways in which mosques have been created through the grassroots, self funded and self built endeavours of migrant Muslim communities of diverse backgrounds, as they have settled in Britain. Through this journey of