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 ...

By Gayane Barseghyan Yerevan is older than Rome — 2808 years old at present. The birth certificate of the ancient city is a cuneiform inscription, made in 782 BC by […] ...

Built in 1849 by Ottoman Sultan Abdulmejid I, the mosque stands out among imperial mosques with its single minaret and baroque-style architectural features ...

The mosque’s single minaret, decorative star motifs and unique calligraphy make it a significant example of imperial Ottoman ...

The Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women was designed especially for Muslim women.

When Istanbul’s Sakirin Mosque opened, Zeynep Fadillioglu became the first woman to design a mosque, drawing on centuries of Turkish artistic tradition ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artwork on wall of islamic center representing mosques in latin america People of the Islamic faith are a small religious group in ...

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 ...