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Turkey's largest mosque opens on Istanbul's Asian side

A grandiose six-minaret mosque capable of holding more than 60,000 worshippers opened its doors Thursday in Istanbul after nearly six years of construction.

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"It has a capacity of as many as 63,000 worshippers. A conference hall, a library, a museum and a car park for 3,500 vehicles, will serve along with it," Ergin Külünk, the head of the association of donors that helped finance the project, told dpa.