Mosque of Rome

Italy

Mosque of Rome, Italy
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spring and autumn
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Designed by Paolo Portoghesi and inaugurated in 1995, this is the largest mosque in the Western world, holding over 12,000 worshippers. Its forest of ribbed columns and stacked arches reinterprets Islamic space in reinforced concrete.

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