The mosque’s eclectic design blends Ottoman, Baroque, Rococo and other global styles, creating a multicultural environment in ...

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 ...

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

Fresh designs for a new mosque have been revealed after architects discovered ‘fundamental issues’ with the original proposals. Plans to knock down Cheadle Mosque and Community Centre and replace it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mosques: What is the secret behind the structure and direction of the mosque, in which direction are mosques built in Islamic Architecture and is there any spiritual and scientific secret behind them?

The International Summer School on Mosque Design will take place in Istanbul from September 18-27, 2024, in collaboration with the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Faculty of Architecture and the ...