The local mosque functions as an instant community for Muslim travelers worldwide

Evidence

You can be a traveler, entirely alone in a foreign land. But walk into a mosque on any Friday, and in an instant have a new community, new friends, a new family. This is the magic of being Muslim. This is the magic I experienced right now, inside the Claremont Masjid in Cape Town, this Friday. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 856

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own framing of mosques as underused worldbuilding infrastructure, though the register is devotional rather than infrastructural.