ABSTRACT
If a man [or woman], alone in a room, decides his [her] orientation to Mecca, the direction is ordained through the act of prayer, and in his [her] singularity is his [her] absolute freedom from reproach. The mosque is the place of human agreement to prayer. In its making, it attests to this sense of agreement, and allows an individual the same freedom from reproach as if he [she] were alone; yet it affords, thorough architecture, the generosity of the presence of many.
