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Ismaili Centre, Vancouver
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of six such centres worldwide”. Today it says “ismaili jama'at khana”.
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The opening as it read in 2020
Ismaili Centre, Burnaby is one of six such centres worldwide.1 It was the first purpose-built Ismaili jamatkhana and the first Ismaili centre in North America.2 It has accordingly been the subject of sustained, dedicated academic analysis, being noted as a case-study of modern Islamic architecture in the West.3
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of six such centres worldwide”. Today it says “ismaili jama'at khana”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
one of six such centres worldwide
Now
ismaili jama'at khana
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