The architecture of Mosques and the Covid-19 pandemic
This article attempts to provide some answers to the unexpected effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic relating to the architecture of mosques. For this, we observed mosques in El Oued in the south of Algeria; the climatic and social features of the region involve the use of outer courtyards for pr...
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| description | This article attempts to provide some answers to the unexpected effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic relating to the architecture of mosques. For this, we observed mosques in El Oued in the south of Algeria; the climatic and social features of the region involve the use of outer courtyards for prayer and are taken as a motivating case study. Our investigation in relation to the spread of COVID-19 is the fact that the topic has not been tackled before. COVID-19 has had a great impact at all levels, including the closure of mosques. As the pandemic developed, decisions about the gradual and controlled opening of mosques were made, based only on the capacity factor of the covered spaces of mosques. These decisions ignored the uncovered outer spaces found in mosques in El Oued and some other regions in Algeria. They were, of course, a response to the health protocol requirements related to measures to prevent and protect against COVID-19. We then asked ourselves the following questions: How could the knowledge and spatial arrangement of mosques guide us towards better management and decision-making during a health crisis like COVID-19? And what would the impact of this pandemic on the future architecture of mosques be? Our article is an attempt to find some answers to these questions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f010aeceb3184aaaada9d5de2c2121512023-07-21T10:27:33ZengUniversity of BolognaConservation Science in Cultural Heritage1974-49511973-94942023-07-0122739510.6092/issn.1973-9494/1730315662The architecture of Mosques and the Covid-19 pandemicImadeddine Khoukhi0Dalila Senhadji1Laboratory Environment and Technology for Architecture and Heritage (ETAP), Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Saad Dahlab University Blida1, Blida, AlgeriaLaboratory Metropolis Architecture Urbanism Society (LAMAUS), Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Mohamed Boudiaf University of Science and Technology Oran, AlgeriaThis article attempts to provide some answers to the unexpected effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic relating to the architecture of mosques. For this, we observed mosques in El Oued in the south of Algeria; the climatic and social features of the region involve the use of outer courtyards for prayer and are taken as a motivating case study. Our investigation in relation to the spread of COVID-19 is the fact that the topic has not been tackled before. COVID-19 has had a great impact at all levels, including the closure of mosques. As the pandemic developed, decisions about the gradual and controlled opening of mosques were made, based only on the capacity factor of the covered spaces of mosques. These decisions ignored the uncovered outer spaces found in mosques in El Oued and some other regions in Algeria. They were, of course, a response to the health protocol requirements related to measures to prevent and protect against COVID-19. We then asked ourselves the following questions: How could the knowledge and spatial arrangement of mosques guide us towards better management and decision-making during a health crisis like COVID-19? And what would the impact of this pandemic on the future architecture of mosques be? Our article is an attempt to find some answers to these questions.https://conservation-science.unibo.it/article/view/17303mosquesouter courtyardcovid-19el ouedalgeria |
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