Islamic Cultural Center of New York
Manhattan, United States
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The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, completed in 1991, is a postmodern mosque designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and located at 1711 Third Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan. The first purpose-built mosque in New York, it remains among the city's largest. The structure, measuring 61 meters wide by 73 meters long, is notably rotated 29 degrees from the street grid—a deliberate gesture by the architects that both distinguishes the building from its surrounding Upper East Side context and orients the mihrab toward Mecca for prayer. The design draws inspiration from Turkish mosque architecture. The center maintains a satellite prayer space in a historic townhouse at 1 Riverside Drive.
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- mosque
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- Manhattan, United States
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