Plans for Cordoba House, a Muslim-led community centre in New York, include multi-faith cooking classes and art, plus prayer space.But Muslim worship in the West is mostly in dingy makeshift premises.
The ambience isn't quite the same but, even in city centres, freshly-caught fish, cooked on site and served from makeshift premises serves as a reminder that the shore is never far away, says Robin Dunlop, whose Oyster Boys, a pop-up street food operation is about to embark on a month long run at the Edinburgh festival.
In these makeshift premises it has fewer than 200.
An estimated 200,000 households have resisted the temptation to switch to rubber, maize or other crops.Furthermore, Shan state is also home to the largest number of "meth labs" in the region, makeshift and virtually undetectable premises that churn out methamphetamines; the most popular kind goes by its Thai name, yaba.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association AILAA), through a cadre of attorney volunteers, has negotiated with DHS to provide legal services out of a makeshift trailer on the premises.
(At one early show, Rirkrit turned the premises into a makeshift kitchen, where he cooked and served Thai food to surprised gallerygoers).
The new premises preserve an informal, even makeshift feel — eclectic vintage furniture, gingham-patterned vinyl tablecloths, drinks in plastic beakers, ad-hoc hand-drawn signage — but the restaurant is now distinctly grownup.
The occupiers and their makeshift radio station were ejected from the premises, but the antenna they installed has yet to be taken down.
PIES 'N' THIGHS Sarah Buck promises that the much-delayed move of this makeshift barbecue spot in back of a bar, to more solid premises with a garden, will happen before the rhubarb for her pie is in season.
And so each summer, shortly after the Virginia-Kentucky District Fair and Horse Show wraps up at the fairgrounds, members of Virginia Lions Clubs start bleaching the premises, readying them for RAM's volunteers, who, working in animal stalls and beneath makeshift tents, provide everything from teeth cleaning and free eyeglasses to radiology and minor surgery.
When the lights in our makeshift bedroom – the museum's resplendent Victorian entrance hall – are finally switched off at 3am, burly security men patrol the premises, shining suspicious torches on stirring sleeping bags.
