ABSTRACT
Most scholarly work on shared religious sites focuses on the nature of sharing (Albera 2008; Albera and Couroucli 2012; Bigelow 2007, 2010, 2012; Bowman 2009, 2012a), or the lack of it (Carpenter-Latiri 2012), but much less attention has been given to considering what kinds of spaces may be shared. 1 Many researchers of shared religious spaces focus on interactions at the location of a single site, such as a church, mosque, temple, shrine or tomb of a saint (see, for example, Albera and Couroucli 2012; Barkey and Barkan 2015). Even studies of interactions in wider regions, such as shrines to the Virgin Mary in several countries around the Mediterranean (Albera 2012b) or shrines shared by Christians and Muslims in Anatolia (Couroucli 2012a), focus on specific shrines at specific moments in time. In each case, the limitation is to a single place or to an activity in a narrowly delimited area.
