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Acoustic Design for Mosques, Churches, and Synagogues — Conflicting Requirements Resolved
Worship spaces face an irreconcilable acoustic conflict: speech requires short RT60 for intelligibility, while music and chanting require long RT60 for reverberance. This guide covers mosque dome echo physics, church parallel wall flutter, synagogue variable occupancy, RT60 targets, heritage constraints, and a worked example for a 500 m³ mosque with dome.
March 14, 2026mosque acousticschurch acoustics