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1811 Q St NW, Washington, DC 20009 Dupont Circle [182] Bolivia: Consulate-General 718 Connecticut Ave. NW, 2nd Floor Dupont Circle [183] Brazil: Consulate-General 1030 15th Street NW Downtown [184] Chile: Consular Section 1736 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Embassy Row [185] China: Consular Section 2201 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 110 Observatory ...
The Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States. The chancery is located at 1601 Massachusetts Avenue NW on Scott Circle, at the beginning of Embassy Row. The current ambassador is former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Deputy Head of Mission is Paul Myler. The ...
The Former Embassy of Iran in Washington, D.C. was the Imperial State of Iran's diplomatic mission to the United States. Direct bilateral Iran–United States relations between the two governments were severed following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the subsequent seizure of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran .
Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, leading to the breaking of diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States. As part of the Algiers Accords of 1981, the two countries agreed to establish "interests sections" to look after their interests in the other country.
In the early days of Washington, D.C., most diplomats and ambassadors lived on or around Lafayette Square. The first purpose-designed embassy building in Washington was the embassy of the United Kingdom on 1300 Connecticut Avenue , immediately south of Embassy Row, built in 1872 by Sir Edward Thornton on John Fraser 's design, and demolished in ...
The Islamic Center of Washington is a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Washington, D.C. It is located on Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue just east of the bridge over Rock Creek . When it opened in 1957, it was the largest mosque in the Western Hemisphere.
Ohev Sholom Congregation advertises itself as a dynamic Orthodox community that values Torah, prayer, and good deeds. The congregation touts its location in NW Washington as easily accessible to surrounding neighborhoods in the District of Columbia and Maryland. The congregation counts in its membership a growing number of working professionals ...
It was the first Black Catholic parish in Washington D.C., and its original location was on 15th Street NW, near L Street. That same year, the parish opened a school for Black children in the district—inaugurated five years before the Emancipation Proclamation , after which education of Black children gradually became mandatory.