Dar al-Islam Mosque, Abiquiu, New Mexico

The Dar al-Islam mosque at Abiquiu, New Mexico, was designed by the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy and built in 1981; it is used predominantly by American-born Muslims. ^{1 2} Omar Khalidi places it among the "adapted designs" that reinterpret tradition in the American landscape. ¹

Its sculptural form was achieved by combining a dome built in the Byzantine and Sasanian manners, barrel vaults and large pointed arches, and it grew out of the same regional style that Fathy created for New Gourna in Egypt, using the same earthen construction. ¹ Khalidi finds it apt for its setting, since New Mexico's cultural links to Spain nurtured a local mud-brick tradition close to that of New Gourna; the caption adds that its domed, vaulted and arched forms and Egyptian earth-building techniques complement the region's adobe and Spanish buildings. ^{1 2}