Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Ayhan Altun/Getty Images With a rich history dating back thousands of years, Istanbul is chock-full of architectural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mosque covers a circular footprint of around 17,167 square feet (1,595 square meters). Its shape is not just an aesthetic ...

The whole world is a mosque, the Prophet Muhammad once said. With pious intent, a faithful Muslim can conjure a mosque almost anywhere, transforming a desert sand dune, airport departure lounge or ...

Discover the history and unique architecture behind Colombo’s iconic Red Mosque and its cultural importance in Sri Lanka.

"Dubai Municipality and Duabi Auqaf and Islamic Affairs Department are planning to implement the design of the Jumairah Mosque minaret in all other mosques throughout Dubai," Shabana told Khaleej ...

Organized by the Abdullatif Alfozan Award for Mosque Architecture and the College of Architecture at Kuwait University, the 3rd International Conference on Mosque Architecture was held in Kuwait on 14 ...

The architecture of the future mosque was the subject of a special seminar organized by the “Abdullatif Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture” (AFAMA) and the “Library of Alexandria” last Wednesday, ...

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the now-deceased leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), took control of Iraq’s second-largest city and declared a caliphate in the region in 2014, he did so ...

Suhail Mohammed Suleiman’s proposal for a sustainable mosque to be built in Abu Dhabi has been given the green light. While construction is not confirmed, the eco-mosque would be a symbol of the ...

There's been a lot of debate over the planned Islamic community center that would be built near the spot where the World Trade Center once stood. But there's been very little talk about what the ...