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Architecturally, there is little to connect Delhi’s Parliament Street mosque with the 27-floor vertical palace in Mumbai that is the private home of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest person. The Mughal-style mosque has been a place of Muslim worship for some 300 years. The Ambani home, billed as “a prototype for buildings of the future”, houses the tycoon’s family, along with 600 staff, a 168-car garage and a room that blows artificial snowflakes from its walls.

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