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Park51

Although the Park51 building would not be visible from the World Trade Center site, opponents of the Park51 project have said, among other things, that building a mosque so close to Ground Zero is offensive since the hijackers in the … Continue reading

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World Trade Center Was Influenced by Islamic Architecture

“Yamasaki replicated the plan of Mecca’s courtyard by creating a vast delineated square, isolated from the city’s bustle by low colonnaded structures and capped by two enormous, perfectly square towers — minarets, really,” architect Laurie Kerr wrote in Slate in … Continue reading

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