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Originally Posted by suburb
Not at all.
That area is Jewish central, so odds of a mosque or temple therein would be particularly low. That's why the main entry road is called Jerusalem Road, which passes immediately beside the Jewish Community Centre located within Jerusalem Park along with the Congregational House of Jacob. The Calgary Jewish School is just across 14th and up a pinch, right beside the Beth Tzedec Conservative Congregation.
Are there any other overtly religious affiliated areas in the city? We certainly have other areas that are culture/ethnicity centric hubs - but culture is different from religion of course.
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Coming from Winnipeg, which has one of the larger (if not largest) Jewish communities proportionally in Canada - it was striking when I discovered Pump Hill. It was like "ah ha! so THAT's where they are!". Winnipeg's Jewish residents are all over the city but they're definitely concentrated into one of the wealthier parts of the city. And yeah, if you know what a Jewish community looks like, it's staring you right in the face in Pump Hill.
I can't think of anything remotely similar with any other religious group, beyond correlations with certain ethnicities. I can see there being more mosques in the NE but that's not precisely due to religious alignment. More of a side-effect.
Then again, I can't think of a more tightly integrated religious-cultural group than Jews - at least of any size - although that statement is sure to set off the obligatory shitstorm.