Vali-e-Asr Mosque

The Vali-e-Asr Mosque, also spelled as the Valiasr Mosque, is a Shi'ite mosque that has been forcibly closed, located in the city of Tehran, in the province of Tehran, Iran. It takes its name, a reference to the Mahdi in Shi'ite tradition, from the nearby Valiasr Street. The mosque was designed by the founders of the Iranian architectural and urban design firm Fluid Motion Architects, Reza Daneshmir and Catherine Spiridonoff in an Iranian contemporary neomodernist style. The building spans 3,855 square metres (41, 490 sq ft) and contains eight floors, four of which lie underground, providing a floor area of 25,000 square metres (270, 000 sq ft). In addition to serving as a place of prayer, the mosque also functions as a cultural center, containing a library and several classrooms. The mosque became a source of controversy in Iran due to its lack of traditional domes and minarets. Consequently, its official religious operations were halted by the Iranian government in 2018.

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