Avant-garde mosque angers hard-liners in Iran
In this Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, photo, Reza Daneshmir, right, gestures as he talks with his wife Catherine Spiridonoff, both architects of Vali-e-Asr mosque, while they walk on one of the mosque's ramps, in Tehran, Iran. The architects behind the Vali-e-Asr mosque dispensed with the traditional rounded domes and towering minarets, instead opting for a modern design of undulating waves of gray stone and concrete, which they say complements the surrounding architecture and evokes the austerity of early Islam. | Photo Credit:/ A newly built ...
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