Two guys got together and decided to create a “Williamsburg and Greater Greenpoint” tote bag. The map on the bag calls out the Russian Orthodox Cathedral at North 12th and Driggs as “the Mosque”. I wasn’t going to bother linking to this inanity until I noticed that the bag’s designers were defending their mistake by saying that “*everyone* calls it that”.
Everyone who? Does anyone know anyone who calls this building “the Mosque”? (Or at least anyone who remembers this building with green domes who calls this building “the Mosque”?) Or are these people just so unhip that they can’t tell the difference between Russian architecture (you know, onion domes, the Kremlin and what not) and Islamic architecture (minarets, Hagia Sophia, minarets).