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npr: In Turkey, Mosque Gets A Woman's Touch
<h1><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940942&ft=1&f=1004"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">In Turkey, Mosque Gets A Woman's Touch</span></a></h1>
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<p class="byline">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101326">Ivan Watson</a></p>
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<p class="byline"> <span class="date">October 21, 2008 · </span>The role of women in Islam is an issue that's been furiously debated, especially in Turkey — an overwhelmingly Muslim country with a strict secular constitution.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940942&ft=1&f=1004" onclick="javascript:window.open('/templates/common/image_enlargement.php?imageResId=95940943', 'imageEnlargementPopup', 'scrollbars=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes')"><img vspace="3" hspace="6" border="0" align="left" src="http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/oct/mosque_200.jpg" alt="Sakirin Mosque minaret" class="photo border" /></a>The governing pro-Islamic political party was almost banned this year after it tried to allow women who wear Islamic head scarves to study at universities.</p>
<p>In the midst of this controversy, several Muslim women who do not wear head scarves have quietly reached a new milestone — these artists are helping build a mosque.</p>
<p>For centuries, Istanbul was the seat of the caliphate, the capital of the Islamic world and home to hundreds of magnificent old mosques. Now this city of countless domes and minarets is about to get a unique new addition.</p>
<p>Zeynep Fadillioglu is one member of a team of interior designers and architects overseeing the construction of the Sakirin Mosque. It is Fadillioglu's first mosque.</p>
<p>"I think I don't know of any other person — a woman — who has designed a mosque before," she says.</p>
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<p>Find this article: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940942&ft=1&f=1004"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here</span></a></p>
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<p class="byline">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101326">Ivan Watson</a></p>
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<p class="byline"> <span class="date">October 21, 2008 · </span>The role of women in Islam is an issue that's been furiously debated, especially in Turkey — an overwhelmingly Muslim country with a strict secular constitution.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940942&ft=1&f=1004" onclick="javascript:window.open('/templates/common/image_enlargement.php?imageResId=95940943', 'imageEnlargementPopup', 'scrollbars=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes')"><img vspace="3" hspace="6" border="0" align="left" src="http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/oct/mosque_200.jpg" alt="Sakirin Mosque minaret" class="photo border" /></a>The governing pro-Islamic political party was almost banned this year after it tried to allow women who wear Islamic head scarves to study at universities.</p>
<p>In the midst of this controversy, several Muslim women who do not wear head scarves have quietly reached a new milestone — these artists are helping build a mosque.</p>
<p>For centuries, Istanbul was the seat of the caliphate, the capital of the Islamic world and home to hundreds of magnificent old mosques. Now this city of countless domes and minarets is about to get a unique new addition.</p>
<p>Zeynep Fadillioglu is one member of a team of interior designers and architects overseeing the construction of the Sakirin Mosque. It is Fadillioglu's first mosque.</p>
<p>"I think I don't know of any other person — a woman — who has designed a mosque before," she says.</p>
<p>(...)</p>
<p>Find this article: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95940942&ft=1&f=1004"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here</span></a></p>
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