Lebanon mosque sends message of co-existence
Architect says "you can be religious without being close-minded"
Mukhtara, Lebanon
FROM a distance, there's little to suggest that the building at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara in Lebanon's Chouf mountains is a mosque.
After all, despite practising a faith that is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, the Druze do not worship at mosques, and the building strays far from the traditional rendering of a Muslim prayer house.
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