Hospitality is also an architectural tradition.
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The first time you take your shoes off at the door of a house in another country, you are not sure what you are walking into. You read up the night before. You wore the right things. Somebody at the entrance gave you a smile and pointed you at the room. From here on the building takes over. The floor is cool under your feet. The voices around you are low. Nobody is watching to see whether you are doing it correctly. The rules are easier than you feared, and most of them turn out to be variations on the same one: you came in peace, so you are welcome.
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, in Muscat. The courtyard opens to visitors most mornings, no questions asked beyond the obvious ones about how you are dressed. After half an hour you walk back out, put your shoes on, and notice you have not checked your phone the whole time.
A natural fit for The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, or any book opened on a long flight to somewhere you have never been.
Somebody, a long time ago, walked up to this exact point on a mountain or a coast or a high plateau and decided this was where the building had to go. They did the work. Stone was brought from somewhere. A roof was built. A bell was hung. The whole thing was finished, and the next morning the wind kept moving exactly as it always had. The building has been there ever since. It does not need you to admire it. It needs you to be quiet.
