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Lala Tulpan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of russia 's largest mosques”. Today it says “one of russia 's largest mosques with 53-metre-tall twin minarets”.
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Lala Tulpan ("Tulip in Bloom") in Ufa is one of Russia 's largest mosques . Its 53-metre-tall twin minarets are the third tallest in the country after the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny and the Qolsharif Mosque in Kazan .1 The building can hold up to 1000 worshippers. It was built between 1990 and 1998 to a modernist design by Wakil Davlyatshin.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of russia 's largest mosques”. Today it says “one of russia 's largest mosques with 53-metre-tall twin minarets”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

one of russia 's largest mosques

Now

one of russia 's largest mosques with 53-metre-tall twin minarets

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