Prayer and meditation pavilion

awards:

Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture 2019, shortlisted;

Detail Prize 2009, shortlisted;

Fondazione Frate Sole – International Holy Architecture Award 2008, commented;

BarbaraCapocchin International Award, shortlisted.

 

Prayer pavilion for the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery: a place that could accommodate prayer, as customary in any place of health-care, but also a space that could host the spiritual complexity of the Sudan country. Our choice was to create a space that could accommodate the prayer and meditation of all faiths.

 

Read more about the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013
http://www.akdn.org/architecture/project/salam-cardiac-surgery-centre

  • Place: Khartoum, Sudan
    Client: Emergency ong onlus
    Status: completed in 2007
    Design: TAMassociati
    Photo: Marcello Bonfanti