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Charitable giving, or zakat, is one of the five pillars of Islam.
The sober interior has Byzantine-style frescoes, an 11th-century altar canopy, and a crypt built on Etruscan and ancient Roman pillars.
Isolated figures descend the stairs in this twilit realm, hemmed in by a geometric cage of bars and pillars (Entrance to Subway, 1938).
It was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales in 1927, when stations were still built like Greek temples (Corinthian pillars, heroic statues, and ceramic-tiled ceilings); it is one last proud fanfare for the transcontinental railways that founded the country’s industrial prosperity.
Had those 60 years constituted his entire career, we could relegate him to a historical back shelf along with so many other humanistic pillars of midcentury photography, stalwarts of Life and The Family of Man whose work today primarily inspires a nagging sense of duty.