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The mosque was designed to attain harmony with its cultural surroundings, particularly the adjacent City
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Iranian conservatives because of its lack of traditional features, particularly domes and minarets. They also heavily criticized it due to its relatively small size compared to
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The space currently allocated to the mosque was originally bought by
Suleiman Manavi and was inherited by his grandson, Davood Manavi, a Baha'i, who owned it at the time of the Iranian Revolution. After the revolution the government expropriated the land due to Manavi's religion, and continued to
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as mayor of Tehran in 2005 and a sit-in staged by opponents of the mosque, a different approach to its construction was taken. Consequently, Fluid Motion
Architects was commissioned to design an alternative version of the mosque. The firm altered the original plan for the mosque in an attempt to
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attain harmony with its surroundings. To achieve this goal, Fluid Motion's alterations primarily focused on reducing the mosque's height through the elimination of traditional features, such as domes and minarets. The mosque's unconventional design drew opposition from
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use it as a parking lot until the early 1980s, when the idea for a mosque in the space was introduced for the first time. A fundraiser was organized to sponsor its construction, but it was unsuccessful. Two decades later, during
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was used to construct the mosque's exterior due to its relatively low price and its previous use in the construction of the neighboring City
Theater. The exterior's most prominent exterior feature is its sloping
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design was devoid of significant meaning. Some critics also questioned the legitimacy of the mosque due to the religious background of
Catherine Spiridonoff, whose grandfather was a
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and several associated bookshops. The mosque drew strong opposition from artists and intellectuals, who feared that the proposed 55-meter tall mosque would overshadow the adjacent
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Theater and other mosques. These critics argued that mosques must contain large, dominant features, including domes and minarets, in order to depict the greatness of
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and threaten its structural integrity. Many critics preferred to expand the adjacent park due to the mosque's proximity to the theater. After the election of
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