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Faith, Place & Migration: 2024


Staffordshire Street Gallery, Peckham, UK
Assembly: Congregation members sit on original mosque carpet whilst mapped projection travels over them. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Assembly 2024: Congregation members sit on original mosque carpet whilst mapped projection travels over them. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Assembly 2024: Audience viewing Assembly floor projection. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration: Film: Exhibition documentation featuring both installations.
Virtual Assembly 2024: Congregation members view the virtual mosque. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Virtual Assembly 2024: Congregation member navigates the virtual mosque environment using a Bluetooth games controller. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration 2024: Community workshop with wall drawing. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration 2024: Close-ups of picture tags with community and congregation members' memories of the mosque. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration 2024: Congregation members during the Maghrib prayer prior to an Iftar (Breaking of the fast during Ramadan) held onsite at Staffordshire Street Gallery. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration 2024: Congregation members performing Sujud or Sajdah during prayer. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell
Faith, Place and Migration 2024: Evening Iftar where congregation and guests break the day long fast during Ramadan. Photo: Jonny Fuller-Rowell

Project Partners Old Kent Road Mosque
Staffordshire Street Gallery

Funding Arts Council England
Related Articles Negotiating Identities, Language and Migration in Global London: Bridging Borders, Creating Spaces. Multilingual Matters, 2023. Chapter 8: Performing the symbiotic relationship between the adapted mosque and its congregation.
Faith, Place and Migration explores the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London’s oldest Nigerian Muslim community, the Muslim Association of Nigeria (MAN UK). The exhibition features two expanded moving image installations developed through a five-year collaboration with the Old Kent Road Mosque congregation. The first installation, Assembly (2024), filmically performs Islamic prayer through a moving floor projection. Filmed and originally exhibited within the mosque itself, the work serves as a record of the final Jumu’ah (congregational) prayer before the building’s closure. For the exhibition, the film projects into Staffordshire St, bringing together the mosque congregation and wider community through the re-performance of communal prayer. The second installation, Virtual Assembly (2023), presents an interactive 3D model of the mosque, hosting stories and reflections from congregation members. Visitors navigate the virtual site using a controller, triggering personal accounts that reveal the lived experiences and embodied knowledge of the community.

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