Park 51by SOMA Architects

The Islamic Community Center and prayer space is located in Lower Manhattan, a couple of blocks away from Ground Zero.

The 22-story building façade of

interconnected webbing takes root in

the historical fundamentals of

Islamic pattern making.

Due to the strong controversy provoked by the project, the true challenge was to create a piece of architecture that would propose a platform for mediation of social, cultural, urban and political differences in one coherent environment that would equally cater for all parties.