It Looks Like A Mosque,

but was built as a cigarette factory,

photograph Jörg Blobelt/Wikimedia Commons, and today patrons can sit in its dome restaurant and take in a panoramic view of the city, factory owner Hugo Zietz wanted a different style of building for his business, unfortunaly Dresden’s planning laws did not let him build the building he wanted, after two decades of failed attempts to persuade the local government, Ziets decided he was better off bending the rules, so he did! according to TRT World, the construction was inspired by the Mamluk tombs in the Cairo Necropolis,

He named the building after a tobacco growing area in Turkey, Yenidze, the model for the building was the Mameluke tomb of Khair Bak in Cairo, the factory was built between 1909 in 1912 and is generally acknowledged to be the first reinforced steel skeleton construction in Germany, after being sold for several decades it was left derelict, until being completely restored in 1996, the building is currently owned by the Berlin-based EB Group, after being bought in 2014 from Israeli millionaire Adi Keizman, the complex now houses offices and of course its dome restaurant, for more about this fantastical building have a look here.