We’ve had budding animators in Chestnut Class and now we have budding architects in Beech Class!

Beech Class have been busy designing their very own mosques. Like all good architects, they need to think about the needs of the users and incorporate them into their designs: the designs needed to be practical as well as beautiful. For Beech Class, that meant learning all about the things that are important to Muslims when they are in their special building of worship. Designs included: separate spaces for men and women, a place for Wudu (a way of cleansing), racks for worshippers to leave their shoes and a minbar (for the imam to stand at to lead sermons). It wasn’t just the interior features that Beech Class needed to consider, with the exterior features being just as important. Minarets are needed to call worshippers to prayers and beautiful and elaborate domes are needed that could represent heaven. It was a tricky task but Beech Class did an incredible job: creating intricate, eye-catching, decorative buildings that included all of the practical and spiritual features. Ask Beech Class to talk you through their architectural decision making and, who knows, we may have a future Pritzker Award winner in our midst!