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There was a building called a Djamee at Coombe Springs Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey

2006-09-04 06:30:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Other - Visual Arts

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Later in the year, after travelling in Persia, Bennett began to build an extraordinary kind of 'western tekke' called the Djameechoonatra, (a term from Beelzebub's Tales meaning "the place where one receives one's second being food"), built of nine sides and orientated towards Gurdjieff's grave. This, together with his public lectures in London, completed the rift with Madame de Salzmann.
The 'Djamee' as it was known, was constructed particularly for the performance of Gurdjieff's Movements, and originally designed on the basis of the enneagram with a sunken pentagonal floor, echoing the shape of the magnificent stained glass windows. With the advent of Subud, the floor was filled in and used for laitihans. It was not for some years that the Djamee was used for Movements and finally completed only in the 1960's with the fitting of balcony for viewers and an external access through stairs for spectators.
The Djamee was destroyed in the late 1960s when Idries Shah sold Coombe Springs for development to fund his own centre in the south east of England.

2006-09-04 08:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by Pundit Bandit 5 · 0 0

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