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The ** Bahá'í House of Worship ** in [|New Delhi], [|India] , popularly known as the ** Lotus Temple ** due to its flowerlike shape, is a [|Bahá'í] [|House of Worship] and also a prominent attraction in Delhi. It was completed in 1986 and serves as the Mother Temple of the [|Indian subcontinent]. It has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
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The ** Einstein Tower ** (German: // Einsteinturm // ) is an astrophysical [|observatory] in the [|Albert Einstein Science Park] in [|Potsdam], [|Germany] built by [|Erich Mendelsohn]. It was built on the summit of the Potsdam // [|Telegraphenberg] // to house a [|solar telescope] designed by the [|astronomer][|Erwin Finlay-Freundlich]. The telescope supports experiments and observations to validate (or disprove) [|Albert Einstein] 's [|relativity theory]. The building was first conceived around 1917, built from 1919 to 1921 after a fund-raising drive, and became operational in 1924. Although Einstein never worked there, he supported the construction and operation of the telescope. It is still a working solar observatory today as part of the [|Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam]. Light from the telescope is directed down through the shaft to the basement where the instruments and laboratory are located.....