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Architecture of Suriname

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Architecture of Suriname comprises the built environments of Suriname, including pre-Columbian settlement landscapes, Indigenous and Maroon vernacular architecture, colonial forts and plantations, the wooden city of Paramaribo, Asian-Surinamese religious buildings, company towns, post-war tropical modernism, post-independence public architecture, and contemporary heritage debates.[1][2] Its development has been shaped by rivers, tropical hardwood, enslaved and free craft labour, plantation capitalism, Asian indentured migration, bauxite extraction, state-building after independence in 1975, and the conservation problems of wooden buildings in a humid tropical climate.

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The Waterkant in Paramaribo, part of the UNESCO-listed wooden inner city

Pre-Columbian and Indigenous architecture

The earliest architecture in Suriname is known mainly through archaeology. In the coastal plain, pre-Columbian settlement included raised mounds, habitation platforms and modified landscapes. These earthworks show that architecture included the shaping of village sites, agricultural ground and ritual landscapes, not only individual shelters.[3]

Indigenous vernacular architecture used timber, palm leaves, clay, lianas and other local materials. Houses were generally designed for shade, ventilation and openness rather than permanence. Settlement patterns were shaped by rivers, kinship, gardens, forest access and ritual life. Among Indigenous peoples such as the Kali'na, Lokono, Trio and Wayana, the house formed part of a wider landscape of paths, landing places, gardens and communal space.[4][5] In Kali'na camps, resting, storage, cassava processing, tool placement and gendered work areas are organized around a central hut, or auhto. [6]

Colonial architecture

After Dutch control was consolidated in 1667, European settlement introduced forts, plantations, churches, synagogues, administrative buildings and planned towns. Colonial architecture depended on rivers. The Suriname River, Commewijne River and their tributaries functioned as transport routes, settlement axes and plantation frontages. Plantation architecture was a productive landscape rather than a single house type. It included the planter’s residence, mills, boiling houses, warehouses, slave quarters, drainage works, sluices, landing stages, service yards and river infrastructure.[7]

Slave labour and Creole craftsmen

Much of the labour involved in colonial architecture was enslaved. Enslaved Africans and their descendants felled and transported timber, sawed boards, dug canals, worked in yards and plantations, and served as carpenters, joiners, masons, boatmen and porters. After emancipation in 1863, free Creole craftsmen continued to shape timber construction in Paramaribo and the districts. The UNESCO and ICOMOS descriptions of Paramaribo explicitly connect the wooden city to the craftsmanship of Creole people, descendants of enslaved Africans, and to local craftsmen who rebuilt much of the city after the 1821 and 1832 fires.[8][9]

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Gunpowder house in Fort New Amsterdam

Fortifications

Military architecture developed at strategic river points. Fort Zeelandia became the principal fortification in Paramaribo. Fort New Amsterdam, laid out as a bastion fort at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers, defended the plantation colony from naval attack. Eighteenth-century plans show defensive earthworks combined with officers’ houses, barracks, magazines, a guardhouse, a powder magazine, a cistern, a sluice and a jetty.[10]

Jodensavanne

Jodensavanne, a Sephardic Jewish settlement on the Suriname River, developed from the late seventeenth century as a religious, residential and plantation-related settlement landscape. It included the Beraha VeSalom synagogue, cemeteries, landing places, houses and a military post. The synagogue ruins represent one of the earliest architecturally significant synagogue sites in the Americas and were built of imported European brick in a Dutch vernacular idiom.[11][12]

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Ruins of the Beraha VeSalom synagogue at Jodensavanne

The Jodensavanne synagogue stood on a hilltop square and was visually dominant within an open plan of houses, communal buildings and plantation infrastructure. Archaeological evidence, including metal artefacts such as nails, indicates the former presence of wooden buildings that have disappeared from the landscape.[13][14]

Paramaribo

Paramaribo developed from the seventeenth century around Fort Zeelandia and the river landing places of the Suriname River. Unlike many fortified colonial towns, it was not enclosed by a continuous city wall. Its early urban form was comparatively open, with broad streets, large plots and spacious blocks. This open structure reflected the defensive role of the fort, the hot and humid climate, the importance of gardens and yards, and the city’s dependence on a plantation economy in which river transport remained central.[15]

Paramaribo’s wooden fabric was repeatedly damaged by fire. A great fire in January 1821 destroyed much of the area around the Gouvernementsplein, later Onafhankelijkheidsplein, and the Waterkant. A second major fire in September 1832 damaged the southern part of the centre and destroyed dozens of houses. The 1832 fire became part of the history of slavery because Kodjo, Mentor and Present, three enslaved men, were convicted of arson and executed in 1833; later interpretations have often treated the act as resistance.[16][17]

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Wooden houses in Paramaribo

Paramaribo’s architecture combined English, Dutch, French Huguenot and German/Evangelical Brethren influences with the dominant use of wood, producing a specifically Surinamese built idiom. Small details such as carved galleries, door knockers, decorated transoms and entrance compositions as part of the city’s architectural character.[18]

The standard townhouse was usually a rectangular timber building, one or two storeys high, often raised on a brick base. The façade was commonly symmetrical, with a central double door, flanking windows, shutters, a steep roof and a central dormer or dakhuis. Smaller houses could be about 10 to 12 m wide and about 6 m deep, with the long side parallel to the street, a central door in both front and rear façades, and a one-storey body on a stone foot. [19] They often imitated the forms and layouts of larger houses. In better-off houses the street entrance commonly opened under a balcony or gallery into the voorzaal, a formal front room arranged symmetrically with imported and locally made furniture, white-painted board walls and family portraits. Kitchens included the kookraam, also called a Demerara window, while water, washing, toilets, bakehouses and drainage remained closely tied to the yard behind the house.[20]

These blocks joined housing, production, storage and service work, and they also brought different social groups into close spatial relation. In the slavery period, many enslaved people lived and worked in the rear parts of urban lots, behind the houses of owners and employers.[21]

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Reconstructed 18th-century house in Paramaribo

Large elite houses translated European forms into local timber construction. The house at Henck Arronstraat 6, formerly Gravenstraat 6, was built in 1774 for Jean Nepveu, governor of Suriname from 1770 to 1779. With a volume of more than 4,000 m³, it was one of the largest houses in Paramaribo. Although built entirely of wood, its main volume and hipped roofs referred to the French hôtel particulier, and its façade ornament used Louis XIV motifs. Its construction also depended on local technique: tropical hardwood made large spans possible, while the façade, like many Paramaribo houses, was a thin timber skin of exterior boarding fixed to posts. The building burned down in 1996 and was reconstructed in 2022.[22][23]

Nineteenth-century additions changed the appearance of the city substantially. Galleries and balconies, now often perceived as characteristic of old Paramaribo, were in many cases later additions rather than original features. They became widespread in the nineteenth century and gave houses a more open street frontage through slender columns, consoles, balustrades, plants and shaded semi-outdoor space. The mass addition of galleries made the city appear more open and green, but also shows that the wooden city developed through repeated adaptation rather than through a single fixed house type.[24]

Roof forms also changed. Older timber houses generally had steep roofs, often with slate or tile coverings, central dormers and raised ends. From the late nineteenth century, the introduction of galvanized corrugated sheeting allowed shallower roof pitches and new roof forms. Houses were also raised from one or two storeys to two or three storeys, often by enlarging the dormer zone and eventually lifting the gutter line. This process enlarged building volumes and gradually reduced the visual dominance of the older steep roof silhouette.[25]

Onafhankelijkheidsplein and the civic centre

Onafhankelijkheidsplein, formerly Gouvernementsplein and Oranjeplein, is the principal civic square of Paramaribo. It lies near the Suriname River, the Waterkant, Fort Zeelandia and the Palm Garden. Its surrounding buildings include the Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Finance, the Court of Justice, the former parliamentary site and the Congreshal.[26]

The Presidential Palace is one of the largest colonial buildings around the square. It has a plastered brick ground floor, wooden upper storeys, galleries, pilasters and a broad ornamented pediment.[27]

The Corner House at Waterkant 2, rebuilt after the 1821 fire, marks the meeting point of the Waterkant and the civic centre. The UNESCO nomination describes it as a monumental wooden building on a high brick substructure, with Doric corner pilasters, a cornice, a hipped roof with dormers, a front perron, an Ionic portico, columns, a balcony with iron balustrade and a pedimented upper feature.[28]

Christian and Jewish religious architecture

Religious buildings translated timber, brick and classical forms into public architecture. Protestant churches were generally restrained, symmetrical and classical, using octagonal or elongated plans, plastered brick, timber roof structures, pilasters, cornices and pedimented central bays; examples include the Lutheran Church on the Waterkant and the Reformed Church on Kerkplein in Paramaribo.[29]

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The timber Cathedral-Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul

The Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, built between 1883 and 1887, was designed by Franciscus Harmes, a Dutch Redemptorist lay brother and carpenter-builder.[30] It is the most elaborate nineteenth-century wooden church in Suriname. The building has a basilican cross-shaped plan, a broad west front with two towers, a high nave, lower side aisles, a transept and rear chapels. Its exterior combines Neo-Romanesque massing with Neo-Gothic spires. Its colour scheme includes grey fasciae, pilasters, friezes, columns and arches, yellow wall fields and white window tracery. The interior is of unpainted cedar wood, with timber vaulting, carved capitals, arcades, a large rose window and cast-iron tracery in the aisle windows.[31][32]

The nineteenth-century Neveh Shalom Synagogue is associated with Jean François Halfhide and stands on a large plot behind a monumental fence with brick piers. It has a hipped slate roof, a portico of four Ionic columns, a cornice, a pediment, broad steps, brick stair flights, a marble-tiled landing and an interior floor covered with white sand.[33][34]

Funerary architecture and cemetery landscapes also form part of Paramaribo’s religious built heritage.[35]

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Interior of the Neveh Shalom Synagogue

Maroon architecture

The Maroons are descendants of Africans who escaped enslavement on Dutch colonial plantations in Suriname and established independent communities in the interior. Maroon peoples in Suriname include groups such as the Saramaka, Ndyuka, Matawai, Paramaka, Kwinti and Aluku.[36]

Maroon architecture developed in relation to river transport, forest settlement, kinship, ritual life and resistance to slavery. Archaeological work at Kumako has shown interaction between Maroon and Indigenous communities and the development of distinct settlement practices in the forest interior.[37]

Traditional Maroon houses are generally small detached timber structures set within irregular village clusters. A measured sample of Saramaka houses near Nieuw Aurora averaged about 4 m in width, 5 m in depth and 4 m in height. Older houses could have one entrance and no windows, while later houses may include one or more windows. The interior was compact, with sleeping space, storage and a front area for receiving visitors or displaying valued goods.[38]

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The decorated front of a Maroon house, photographed in 1948

The most visually distinctive feature is the decorated front façade. Gabled fronts may include diamonds, checkerboards, circles, stars and lace-like openwork. House-front carving belongs to the wider Maroon art complex known as tembe, which also appears on canoes, paddles, stools, combs, trays and domestic objects. From the mid-twentieth century, bright commercial paints produced multicoloured geometric façades, canoe prows and paddles.[39][40]

Asian-Surinamese architecture

Hindustani, Javanese and Chinese-Surinamese architecture developed from migration histories connected to the post-emancipation plantation economy. After the abolition of slavery in 1863, more than 34,000 Hindustani contract labourers migrated from British India to Suriname between 1873 and 1916.[41] Javanese migration followed from 1890 to 1939, when almost 33,000 people migrated from Java to Suriname, many of them as contract labourers.[42] Chinese migration began earlier, with Chinese contract migrants arriving in Suriname from 1853; later Chinese-Surinamese life became strongly associated with retail, associations and urban commercial premises.[43][44]

Javanese-Surinamese domestic architecture developed from plantation housing into self-built rural and suburban forms. Javanese settlement often followed dry ridges rather than riverbanks, creating linear roadside patterns near gardens and rice polders; the omah Jawa (Javanese house) commonly used rough horizontal planks overlapped for ventilation and rain protection, while later houses adopted newer materials but retained recognizable Javanese spatial traits.[45]

Hindustani-Surinamese rural housing could combine domestic, commercial and service functions within a single compound. In Satya Jadoenandansing’s description of a family plot at the Leidingen, a shop-house stood near the road, a larger two-storey wooden family house stood behind it, and separate kitchen, bathroom, toilet, shed and yard spaces organized work, cooking, washing, storage and animal keeping. The house stood on concrete neuten (piloti), used outward-opening shutters, collected rainwater and relied on a separate kitchen with clay culha wood-fired stoves.[46]

Early Hindu and Islamic buildings were generally small vernacular religious structures on plantations, rural settlements and urban plots rather than monumental temples or mosques. Early mandirs could be compact private shrines with conical roofs and images of deities inside. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hindu religious buildings increasingly combined a shrine with a rectangular meeting hall, benches and a raised ritual platform.[47]

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A Hindu temple in Nieuw-Nickerie, 1948

A Surinamese mandir type developed with a rectangular assembly body and a more symbolic front. Arya Samaj temples of the 1930s used three front towers symbolizing God, human beings and nature; the arrangement was later adopted by orthodox Hindu communities as well. Colour and ornament became especially visible in Hindu religious architecture, with painted motifs, inscriptions and bright exterior palettes becoming a major field of Hindustani-Surinamese architectural expression.[48]

The Arya Dewaker mandir, inaugurated in 2001, is an octagonal, two-storeyed temple with an orange dome, a central upper-floor temple room, a broad veranda, lower rooms for meetings and education, and a capacity of about 500 people in the temple room. The exterior is white with red and blue ornament; the building carries Devanagari texts, floral motifs, Om signs and swastikas, while the interior uses dark brown, gold, dark green and light blue.[49]

Early mosques were modest and timber-based. Hindustani Muslim communities used small wooden mosques, including half-open prayer halls organized around congregational prayer and the qibla. Among Javanese Muslims, prayer orientation became an architectural expression of religious debate, as some communities followed older Javanese westward orientation while others argued that Muslims in Suriname should face east toward Mecca.[50]

The Mosque Keizerstraat, built between 1973 and 1984, replaced earlier modest mosque buildings with a more monumental urban Islamic form. It was designed by Mohamed Nazier Ataoellah. Its vocabulary included domes, minaret-like vertical accents and a symmetrical urban frontage.[51]

Chinese-Surinamese architecture has mainly taken the form of commercial, associational and commemorative spaces within Paramaribo’s existing urban fabric. Chinese-Surinamese institutions used timber houses, galleries, association halls, shop-houses and urban compounds, adding Chinese inscriptions, ritual objects, lanterns, memorials and later more explicit Chinese decorative elements. Kong Ngie Tong Sang functioned as a clubhouse, school, meeting place and welfare institution; its nineteenth-century building was a two-storey urban house with spacious galleries.[52][53]

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Kong Ngie Tong Sang building

Company towns and transmigration villages

Twentieth-century extraction produced planned settlements outside Paramaribo. Moengo, founded after the development of bauxite mining by the Surinaamsche Bauxiet Maatschappij, later Suralco, became Suriname’s clearest example of company-driven urbanism. The town was organized around mining, transport, housing, welfare, leisure and discipline, with access to facilities and housing structured by race, employment category and rank.[54]

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Casa Blanca in Moengo, 1947

Casa Blanca, built between 1925 and 1927 as the director’s residence and later used as a staff club, became the symbolic building of the company landscape. It combined American Beaux-Arts classicism, Art Deco and Surinamese architectural elements, and stood as a white-plastered elite building on a spacious lawn. Its position in the staff village made spatial hierarchy visible within the company town.[55][56]

A different form of planned settlement emerged after the construction of the Afobaka Dam and the flooding of the Van Blommenstein Reservoir in the 1960s. The reservoir displaced Maroon communities from the Suriname River basin. Twenty-five new villages were created, including twelve smaller villages south of the lake and thirteen north and north-east of it. The transmigration villages replaced older dispersed riverine domestic compounds, with sleeping houses, storage houses, cooking shelters, shade trees, yards and river access, by planned layouts with houses placed close together and reduced access to auxiliary buildings, shade, forest and water.[57]

Modern architecture, 1920s–1960s

The main interwar example of the Amsterdam School in Paramaribo was the former Hoofdbureau van Politie (Police Headquarters) on Waterkant 64, redesigned around 1925 by Willem Eduard Sniphout. It reused an older commercial structure but received an expressionist modern façade. Its long riverfront elevation, three-storey massing, connected window bands and accent colours distinguished it from the older white timber houses of the Waterkant. Ornament lay in massing, window rhythm, colour contrast and horizontal articulation rather than in carved woodwork. The building was destroyed during the military coup of 25 February 1980.[58]

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Police HQ around 1955

A more extensive modernist phase began after 1951 with the work of Peter J. Nagel, a Dutch engineer-architect. His buildings included the former OGEM building, De Surinaamsche Bank, the Fatum building, the HBU building, the main post office, Buitensociëteit Het Park, schools, churches, hospitals and houses. These buildings introduced rectilinear concrete frames, steel windows, flat or low-pitched rooflines, recessed entrances, vertical fins, canopies and sun-shading devices into the wooden city.[59][60]

De Surinaamsche Bank and the main post office formed part of a compact modernist ensemble around Kerkplein. The buildings used concrete frames, repetitive bays, shaded circulation and sun-shading devices. Buitensociëteit Het Park was a low, pavilion-like social building with open terraces, broad roof planes and a garden setting; after the 1996 fire at the old parliament complex it became the seat of the National Assembly.[61][62]

The Central Market on the Waterkant, completed around 1970 and designed by Peter Nagel, extended tropical modernist concerns into a large public building. It was a roofed commercial structure organized around stalls, circulation, air movement and daylight. Skylights and glass tiles gave the building a functional modernist character based on ventilation, aeration and light rather than on a monumental façade.[63]

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A Bruynzeel house in Suriname

Residential architecture was strongly affected by Bruynzeel houses, standardized timber kit houses produced by Bruynzeel Suriname Houtmaatschappij. These houses became a familiar suburban type: small detached timber dwellings with prefabricated panels, regular façades, light framing and roofs adapted to tropical conditions. Residents later added masonry bases, porches, kitchens, extra rooms, enclosed lower levels and new colours, turning an industrial building system into a flexible domestic architecture.[64]

Suriname’s tropical modernism formed part of a wider mid-twentieth-century architectural development in the Global South. In West Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, modernist buildings adapted concrete frames, sun-breakers, louvres, screens, cross-ventilation, shaded corridors and open plans to tropical climates.[65]

Post-independence architecture, 1970s–2000s

Suriname became independent on 25 November 1975.

The Anton de Kom University of Suriname originated with the University of Suriname, opened in 1968, and received its present name in 1983. Its campus at Leysweg became an important post-independence institutional landscape. The university library, designed by Surinamese architect Atsoi Wilfred Tsai-Meu-Chong, became one of the best-known campus buildings and a symbol of national higher education.[66][67][68]

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The Congreshal on Onafhankelijkheidsplein

Another proponent of tropical architecture was Arie Verkuijl. After graduating in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool Delft in the Netherlands in 1969, Verkuijl worked in Suriname as an urban planner and founded the Instituut voor Tropische Architectuur in 1977.[69] His architectural writing emphasized ordinary domestic life rather than monumentality: orientation to sun and wind, shade, gardens, cross-ventilation, outdoor cooking, work at home, incremental expansion and the “open door” as an architectural element in a society where houses often function as flexible social and economic spaces.[70] Paradoxically, his best-known public work is the Congreshal on Onafhankelijkheidsplein, a late-modern building of steel and transparent or translucent synthetic material that contrasted strongly with the surrounding wooden historic city and became controversial for that reason.[71]

The Chancery of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Paramaribo, built between 1992 and 1996 and designed by Lucien Lafour and Rikkert Wijk, combined embassy and consular functions on a narrow, deep central plot. Its shifted oval volumes, internal voids, operable shutter-like windows, cross-ventilation, deep roof overhangs, permanent sun screens, entrance water basins and filigree-like external grilles translated tropical and historic-city concerns into a late twentieth-century diplomatic building.[72]

The professional field remained small in the 1990s. Around 1997 Paramaribo had only about ten architecture offices, while the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Suriname was producing only a small number of graduates. This helps explain the mixed quality of late twentieth-century urban expansion, where architect-designed buildings stood beside self-built houses, speculative commercial blocks and imported stylistic fashions.[73]

Twenty-first-century architecture and heritage debates

The inscription of Paramaribo’s historic inner city on the World Heritage List in 2002 changed the evaluation of recent architecture. Modern and contemporary buildings were increasingly judged in relation to the scale, material, colour and silhouette of the wooden city. Restoration and urban rehabilitation became more prominent, while concrete, glass, steel and commercial additions were debated for their effect on the protected cityscape.[74][75]

The reconstruction of the National Assembly complex on Henck Arronstraat after the 1996 fire became a major twenty-first-century heritage project. Completion followed in 2022. A later proposal for a new meeting hall provoked controversy because of its modern addition to the historic parliamentary site and its perceived incompatibility with UNESCO and ICOMOS guidelines for the wooden inner city.[76][77]

The new United States Embassy compound in Paramaribo, completed in 2016 by ZGF Architects on a large suburban site, includes a chancery, support buildings and facilities for the embassy community. The chancery is organized as four volumes around a central gallery, with native tropical woods, vibrant colours, carved accents, rainwater management, green roofs and rain gardens.[78][79]

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Assuria Hermitage High-Rise in Paramaribo

Contemporary commercial architecture has moved beyond the low-rise timber scale of the old city. The Assuria Hermitage High-Rise, opened in 2019 at Recolaan in Paramaribo South, became a prominent example of high-rise office construction outside the historic centre. The building is a ten-storey, 56-metre office tower and has been cited in public discussion about whether government and corporate functions should move into high-rise buildings outside the old inner city.[80][81]

Preservation of built heritage remains a major public issue. By 2005, ten of the city’s sixteen cemeteries recorded in 1916 had disappeared and remaining Christian, public and Jewish burial grounds were threatened by overcrowding, closure and neglect.[82] By 2026, reporting indicated that since 1999 Paramaribo had lost 43 of 274 protected monuments through fire, illegal demolition or neglect, including 25 through deliberate demolition or intentional neglect. Demolition conflicts within the historic centre have raised concerns about the long-term status of the World Heritage property.[83][84]

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Ministry of Social Affairs building in 2021

A central social debate concerns whether colonial wooden buildings should be preserved as national heritage or replaced by modern buildings seen as more functional, profitable or symbolically forward-looking. The debate is sharpened by the fact that the historic city is inseparable from slavery and plantation wealth. For some residents and developers, wooden monuments are expensive, decaying buildings associated with colonial privilege and forced labour; for preservationists, they are also evidence of Creole craftsmanship, urban memory, climate-adapted construction and a rare surviving timber city. This tension has produced a conservation dilemma in which legal protection, public ownership, private maintenance costs, tourism, anti-colonial memory and the desire for modernity are difficult to reconcile.[85][86][87]

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