“…Venturing into the subterranean Rural Muslims and Sacred Spaces 337 realm is a well-covered theme both in literature (Williams, 2008) and in academia (Garrett, 2011), which appropriates such verbs as 'digging', 'excavating' and 'exposing' in the search for knowledge. Beck (2011), however, calls for more work on understanding the nature of absence in itself and, in response, I examine how 'invisible' spaces are lived religious landscapes (Kong, 2005) in the everyday lives of Muslims in west Wales, negotiating absence and presence.…”