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Building Futures: The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque - Shahed Saleem illustration Sho Shibuya’s New York TimesBuilding Futures brings together Shahed Saleems written and visual research on the British Mosque, to narrate how mosques have emerged, evolved and become established in Britain since the late nineteenth century. Critical texts describe the ways in which mosques have been created through the grassroots, self funded and self built endeavours of migrant Muslim communities of diverse backgrounds, as they have settled in Britain. Through this journey of