The Mosque as Heritage Site: The Al-Rashid at Fort Edmonton Park and the Politics of Location
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2013, the Al-Rashid Mosque celebrated a major milestone that almost did not happen: its 75th anniversary. As the oldest purpose-built mosque in Canada, the building has had a storied history: constructed with the combined support of a burgeoning Muslim community and the City of Edmonton, the Al-Rashid had served the Muslim and, more broadly, the Arab community until congregants outgrew the space during the 1980s. By 1992, the building sat in disrepair and was slated for demolition. Its move to Fort Edmonton Park the same year sparked controversy as debates over the building’s historic significance played out in town hall meetings and in the news media. As one newspaper columnist remarked, the fort was publicly forced to accept a “foreign intrusion.” This article discusses the history of the Al-Rashid Mosque, but also examines the social and political narratives the mosque articulates as one of Canada’s only Islamic heritage buildings. I am interested in the ways in which Edmonton’s diverse Muslim community along with Fort Edmonton Park currently animates the Muslim settlement history and how its location within the fort continues to raise questions over its heritage value today.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".