Monday, June 03, 2013

Meet Zeynep Fadillioglu: the first woman to design a mosque in modern Turkey

Meet Zeynep Fadillioglu: the first woman to design a mosque in modern Turkey
By Myriam Robin

In 2009, there were more than 700 new mosques built in Turkey.

But only one was designed by a woman.

Zeynep Fadillioglu was the lead architect of the Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul.

Fadillioglu, who's run her own design company for 16 years, has spent most of her career designing restaurants and hotels.

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