Yahoo

The Blue Mosque: Everything You Need to Know

With a rich history dating back thousands of years, Istanbul is chock-full of architectural marvels. One such wonder is the Blue Mosque, or the Sultan Ahmed Mosque as it is known to locals. The Blue ...
Wane

Fort Wayne mosque makes history around the world

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It’s been more than forty years since Burmese Muslims have built a mosque anywhere in the world, let alone the United States. After five years of construction, the wait is ...
The Atlantic

Behind the Mosque Controversy, a Rich History of Both Coexistence and Conflict

Over the past two months, the planned construction of a Muslim cultural center in the vicinity of the World Trade Center site has become the fulcrum of an acrimonious debate about religion, freedom of ...
CNN

Destruction of Mosul mosque desecrates history

Editor’s Note: Kishwar Rizvi is an Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Yale University. She is the author of “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the ...
Time

Here’s the First Time a U.S. President Visited an American Mosque

As President Obama visits the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday, he sets a milestone for his presidency: it’s his first presidential visit to a U.S. mosque. But he’s far from the first ...
The Conversation

Australia now has its own grand mosque: a brief history of how these buildings fold into the urban landscape

Majdi Faleh receives funding from Australian Research Council. Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200989 Dijana Alic receives funding from Australian Research Council. Special Research ...