Al Masjid al Nawabi really seems to belong to its users. It looks like some folk are there all the time - chatting, learning, reciting, eating, drinking, praying, sleeping. It's a dramatically monumental building, but manages to be a great deal more than a monument. Which is part of its magnificence.
I assume, by the way, that the modern day architects modelled the columns of the interior on the great cathedral in Cordoba. They chose the best of role models, and there's a lesson in that.
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