Praying in Berlin’s “Asiatown”: religious place-making in a multi-ethnic­bazaar­

Over the last two decades, large numbers of new migrants have arrived in European cities from different parts of the world. Religious imaginations and practices are part of the luggage they bring along. Therefore, religious sites such as churches, mosques, shrines, temples and other places of worship function as new markers­ of­ place-making.­Their­meaning­ and­ significance­ as­ linchpins­ in­ processes­ of diasporic religious emplacement, however, may change considerably through believers’ migration and incorporation into the host society.