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I find the Bahá’í House of Worship for North America to be both at odds and complementary to its surrounding.  Visually, it fits nicely into the neighborhood, sitting on a bend in the road and at the inland start of a harbor.  Yet, Wilmette is a plain vanilla suburb, albeit it wealthyYou just don't expect to find a house worship of a religion that originated in Tehran in the mid-19th Century in a Midwestern suburb.