Wil Mosque after the minaret vote (Daily Life and Environment 2011, by Mark Henley) - Swiss Press Award
Le Temps
Photo / Daily Life and Environment
2011
Mark Henley
Muslim man reading a religious text, accompanied by a boy and a girl in the room that serves as a prayer hall and makeshift mosque on an industrial estate in the town of Wil. Their community's project to build a cultural centre including a minaret was one of the two propositions that sparked a controversial anti-minaret campaign that led to a referendum banning minarets in Switzerland
