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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This period, spanning from 1037 to 1194, saw groundbreaking advancements in architecture and urban planning that left a lasting impact on the Islamic world. Notably, the Seljuks are celebrated for ...

Albania sits at the crossroads of three major religions: Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, and two new churches were recently completed for the later religions. So in order to promote ...

"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 ...

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 ...

I presented a slide of an Afghan cameleer’s mosque to a conference of art historians last year, noting that this was Australia’s most distinctive contribution to Islamic architecture. Some of them ...

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 ...