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A Mosque for the Eternal City |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Susan Tenaglia |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,921 Words, 11,614 Characters |
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Rome, the capital of Christendom for the Western world, is also becoming the new Mecca of Europe. This spring, the city's newly constructed mosque will take its place beside the Vatican and the Roman synagogue, making the ancient capital a religious and cultural haven for Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.
Designed by distinguished Italian architect and world-renowned architectural historian Paolo Portoghesi, the mosque rises up from the foot of Monte Antenne, a luxuriant green hill at the northern point of Rome overlooking the Tiber Valley. Driving along what used to be Via Anna Magnani but is now Via della Moschea, most Romans stare with amazement at the peculiar pale-yellow building with its sixteen small domes and one large central dome crowned with a half-moon, and the palm-li...
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... because it is a symbol of reconciliation and represents the peaceful union of two cultures." Indeed, the mosque is not just a monument to peace but a step in the slow process toward social integration. As one Saudi dignitary stated so perfectly, "The day this is all reality, when the muezzin's voice mingles with the bells of Rome, it will no longer be rhetorical to call each other brothers."
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