Fundamental separation

摘要

If You are looking at the humdrum Ankara skyline from Ataturk's hilltop mausoleum, one building stands out: the Kocatepe mosque. Its four minarets hem in a massive vanilla sundae of domes and semi-domes, in a modern pastiche of the traditional Ottoman style. But the architects planned as much for convenience as for tradition. The muezzins ride to the top of the minarets in purpose-built lifts. A huge underground car park offers the congregation an instant earthly reward after the snarled city streets. Best of all, when God begins to pall, visitors can turn their attention to mammon, in the form of a large subterranean shopping mall.