Reporters in 2019 described a striped structure with a gold dome, painted doors and no obvious purpose. The 2026 files show Epstein called it a “mosque” in correspondence, while plans labelled it a music room, chapel or pavilion. He sourced tiles from Uzbekistan in 2011 and, in 2017, received three pieces of the Kiswa, the embroidered cloth that covers the Kaaba, through contacts in the Emirates. [1][2][3][4][5]
For Muslims, the Kiswa is sacred, and its presence in a sex offender’s home was offensive news in 2026. For Christians and others who saw a temple of something darker, the documents point to an eccentric collector of religious objects and status symbols, not a site of worship of any kind. [6]
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