Joe Holyoak reflects on Mahtab Hussain's photographic survey of 160 Birmingham mosques, featured in the Ikon Gallery ...

For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East meets West — a true crossroads of civilizations. Once known ...

Today’s Turkey is a melting pot of 20 or so ethnic groups and styles from the very traditional to the very latest ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

Nabatieh’s weekly market was destroyed in Israel’s war on Lebanon, but vendors and customers are returning to breathe life ...

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s iconic Charminar and the bustling Laad Bazaar are set to captivate the world’s attention as part of ...

Architecturally, the Blue Mosque, with its six minarets, rivaled the great mosque in Mecca — the holiest in all Islam. More than 20,000 ceramic tiles with exquisite floral and geometric motifs ...

These gates, easily identifiable by their minarets, include King Abdulaziz Gate (1), King Fahd Gate (79), and King Abdullah Gate (100), which serve as the main entrances and exits for those ...

Muslims pray five times a day, facing the Kaaba in Mecca, which is considered the ... Adhan is traditionally recited from the minaret of a mosque five times daily. It is the first call summoning ...

The Adhan is usually recited from the minaret of masjids and is usually delivered facing towards the Holy Kaaba in Makkah. Wudu is ablution or an act of washing the body before performing prayers ...