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Dec 22, 2024

　　Domes and minarets made up of facets of bronze-tinted, smokey glass and reflecting each other provide for a striking riverside apparition. Built in 2006, but definitely channelling 1970s glam, this mosque is best seen from the river and when illuminated at night.

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