I’m not trying to be disrespectful to mosques in any way, and yes, I know they’re not allowed to use pictures so they resort to geometrical patterns. But still, when I look at images like this, something just feels ‘off’ – much like it does when you look at a haunted house. It just feels sort of otherworldly and unsettling to me. And the feeling is baked in to the visuals. It does not feel like it comes from a human world.
The same goes for something like this tbh:

Especially if I encountered it outside a church, it would really creep me out. It feels like it wants to bite me.


I love the second example. The Catholic Church needed so much money to build the place that it caused a religious schism.