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How to Find Mosques Without Foot Smell: A Real Estate Approach

Zahit Erdem Güzel
4 min readNov 1, 2024

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Sometimes, finding a clean place to pray can make all the difference in maintaining a peaceful spiritual experience. Let’s be real: there’s almost nothing more off-putting than the smell of sweaty feet during prayer. It can undermine what should be a peaceful, reflective moment. Luckily, there is a practical, yet unusual way of finding a solution: real estate value. You heard that right; real estate heat maps might just turn out to be your secret tool in this quest to find mosques with fresher atmosphere.

High Real Estate Value = Higher Standards

You might be thinking, what does a mosque have to do with real estate prices? As it so happens, real estate value often correlates to the general quality and maintenance of public spaces in a neighborhood-mosques being no exception. Mosques in higher-value neighborhoods tend to be better kept, have more funds allocated for cleaning, and are less crowded during prayer times-which helps reduce buildups of that dreaded foot smell.

It reflects in community institutions, including places of worship, when people have more resources to spend on high-value real estate. The congregation would generally be in a position to assist in keeping the mosque fresh through proper ventilation and cleanliness, in addition to general…

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Zahit Erdem Güzel
Zahit Erdem Güzel

Written by Zahit Erdem Güzel

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