Work
Bait Ur Rouf Mosque
Explore in the Atlas →Tabassum's perforated brick mosque, stripped of dome and minaret, rotates a prayer hall within a square and admits dappled light through breathing walls, distilling spirituality from material and shadow.
Ritual Collectivity Ephemerality
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmologyLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Islamic menaWestern philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Tropical Modernism
- exemplifies Critical Regionalism
Referenced by
- Marina Tabassum authored
Sources
- Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Bait Ur Rouf Mosque (Aga Khan Award for Architecture). AKDN, 2016.
- Rosa Maria Falvo (ed.). Marina Tabassum: Architecture. Skira, 2020.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Bait Ur Rouf Mosque." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/bait-ur-rouf-mosque/. Accessed July 17, 2026.