A mosque rebuilt once a year

[kartan]

This mosque is portrayed in How Climate Changes Art: https://youtu.be/dvQocRS3RdE?t=412

The video has other examples like this mosque and asks the question of how to preserve art for future generations.

[markdown]

There makes up part of one of the BBC Human Planet episodes. An absolute must-watch show.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00llpvp/episodes/guide

[_iyig]

I wonder whether people would care more about infrastructure if all buildings required this kind of annual, public, participatory maintenance? Could a less durable structural design on paper produce a higher quality of upkeep in practice?

Reminds me of a problem with the Kindle e-readers. Anecdotally, when the battery life was closer to a month or more, customers would forget that the device needed charging and ultimately let the battery run down. When the battery life was closer to a week, the need to charge it would stay fresh in their minds and they’d keep it from running all they way down.

[jimmaswell]

Seems like you wouldn't bother building well if you had to redo it every year

[mikekchar]

Though nowhere near the epic event this is, one of the things I enjoy about watching Japanese shrines is when they go around and rebuild stuff. Sometimes they even tear the whole thing down and build it again. The first time I saw it, I was in shock -- Why are they tearing down the shrine? But, no. They built it again. Sometimes they build it differently than before. I'm not sure if this is due to finances or other constraints, or if there is some other reason. The one thing that is constant is the trees. You can almost always spot a shrine in Japan -- you see this weird outcropping of 500 year old trees :-) Especially in the city it's a bit like an oasis of nature -- an anchor to a more stable world. Though I say more stable, really it changes all the time, but looks like it's been like that forever.

I really enjoy these things. I am not a religious person and I have next to no education in various religions. However, these kinds of activities really speak to me. I'm always lost as to how to express that side of my nature in my very secular lifestyle.

[Jugurtha]

Yesterday's Nat Geo's article on Timgad got a bunch of things wrong. Today's BBC article is downright click-bait: the mosque isn't rebuilt once a year. They simply do renovation.

Also it's le crépissage.

[metaphor]

> La Crépissage is the one day of the year that women are allowed to enter the mosque...

Is this practice generally considered normative in the Muslim community?

For 5 years, I lived within walking distance of the largest mosque in my city and it never once struck me that this was a thing.

[anticensor]

No, most mosques admit both sexes all the year, although some segregate. Segregation during prayers has no real Islamic basis, unlike segregation in social life, which is covered in Quran in detail.

[Javascripterr]

The norm in mosques is: Women & Men pray separately. In Islam, men praying in congregation get more reward then praying at home (and are sometimes required to pray at the mosque). For women, it's the other way around (more reward when prayed at home and it's not obligatory). Most mosques have a prayer hall for men & women. Usually less women come anyway because of the reason just explained, which usually means mosques have larger prayer hall for men than women. Some, due to lack of area they can build on, don't have space to build a prayer hall for women and thus just use the maximum capacity for the men because these are obliged to go pray at the mosque at least once a week on Friday. For women it's not obligatory to pray at the mosque.

[xallace]

go to reddit and post it there, I mean reddit is perfectly fine for this time of sh-postings. r/beamazed, r/woahdude, r/mildlyinteresting

do we really need another reddit here?

[interfixus]

Still not entirely clear to me how this account is still allowed posting on HN. 359 posts so far - all of them links to articles on bbc.com, where the poster just happens to be a travel editor or some such thing. And no engagement: Never once has any of these many postings prompted a comment form their submitter.

It may well be me being unreasonable here, but this pattern of sort-of-automated sort-of-spamming does repeatedly annoy me.

[oh_sigh]

Presumably this person? https://muckrack.com/miriam-weiner

I learned a lot about Jewish genealogy by googling that name.

[amaccuish]

Who cares? It's the debate and discussion that come after, and the fact that I would have missed stories like these otherwise :)