Jonathan Sacerdoti has a nice little piece in the Spectator on the subject of ‘multifaith’ prayer rooms. Mr Sacerdoti points out that these rooms are really only used by one group which is Muslims.

Mr Sacerdoti said of his fascination with the phenomenon of ‘multifaith’ prayer rooms:

So it was a relief to discover I am not alone in this fascination. Dr Andrew Crompton is an architect and academic who has made probably the world’s most extensive study of these spaces, and recently sat down with me for an interview. (Regular readers may remember him as the professor of architecture who watched, aghast, as a police officer arrived at my door for having an opinion). In 2015, he counted 2,500 multi-faith rooms in Britain; today he estimates five or six thousand. At Heathrow, where a rather beautiful triple chapel – Anglican, Catholic, Nonconformist – was built in 1969, he counted 13 multi-faith spaces in 2015. Today he says there are 39, mostly airside for staff. Ask yourself where the greatest density of religious spaces in the United Kingdom is to be found. Oxford, perhaps, or the City of London with its forest of Wren steeples? It is Heathrow Airport. And nearly all of them, Crompton says, are in effect mosques.

This one by Mr Sacerdoti is well worth a short read.

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Mr Sacerdoti’s piece in the Spectator

https://archive.ph/Qbxeo#selection-1955.1-1959.711