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This case study highlights the interplay between different levels of smaller and larger spatial scales in an interreligious neighbourhood project in Stockholm, Sweden. The interreligious project is aiming to integrate a mosque with the current church building, operating with different materials and media in its public representations. On a small micro level, artefacts enact the project as a means for its public realisation, using micro model representations in front of the visiting public the image of a house-in-the-making and as an example of peaceful living in Sweden. By hosting the building project, the urban district also becomes an ideal city model for integration in a multicultural (liberal) Sweden in public media. The church area as a place for peacebuilding is symbolically locating the church area on Swedish national territory as a promising example of peace and a model directed outside the neighbourhood.
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A young Muslim student, Tariq, has chosen not to participate in the Muslim community in Fisksätra. According to him, if two parties in the local Muslim community are in dispute, it is a Muslim duty not to align with any particular party. Due to the controversy in Fisksätra, he has instead chosen to join a Muslim community in the City of Stockholm. As a reaction to this project, another immigrant Muslim Somali group decided to move from the mosque and start a new mosque in a new building (Liljestrand 2018).
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Liljestrand, J. (2019). Case Study 4: The Church Area of Fisksätra, Stockholm. In: Ipgrave, J. (eds) Interreligious Engagement in Urban Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16796-7_12
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