baha'i temple design

winner of the baha'i temple design contest:
 
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the architects were asked to create "space [that] must clearly feel like a house of worship but must not prioritize the iconography of any one religion over any other. It must be welcoming to everyone—the type of place, they said, that a six-year-old child would be attracted to—but it must also be as perfect in form as humanly possible. And it must be domed, with exactly nine sides and nine entrances."
 
weird.  but i think the winning design accomplishes it pretty well...  read more about it here