{"id":82600,"date":"2026-05-03T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82600"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:59:30","slug":"strange-structure-om-epstein-island-was-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/strange-structure-om-epstein-island-was-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Structure On Epstein Island Was &#8216;Mosque&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/04\/11\/world\/00int-Epstein-Orientalism03\/00int-Epstein-Orientalism03-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Another view of the striped, cube-shaped building.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Tapestries embroidered with Quranic verses were shipped from the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam\u2019s holiest shrine. Tiles came from a mosque in Uzbekistan. A golden metal dome was made to replicate the architecture of ancient Syria.\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein spent years making connections across the Middle East, in pursuit of business deals and two intertwined hobbies: acquiring rare Islamic artifacts with which to decorate an unusual building on his private island, and expanding his network of wealthy, powerful people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The building, a blue-and-white-striped structure topped with a golden dome, has been variously described as a music room, a pavilion, a chapel and even an occult temple. But correspondence between Mr. Epstein and his associates over many years, and an interview with an artist hired to work on it, illuminate its intended purpose.\u00a0For Mr. Epstein, a secular Jew, the building was a \u201cmosque.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777791489\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Strange Structure On Epstein Island Was &#8216;Mosque&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Tapestries embroidered with Quranic verses were shipped from the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam\u2019s holiest shrine..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82602,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82600\/revisions\/82602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}