Overall, Islamic architecture is a physical manifestation of Islamic principles: form, function, and faith unite to create ...

Firefighters have extinguished the flames in Cordoba's historic mosque-turned-cathedral in southern Spain, averting a ...

The Golden Age of Spain lasted from 711 until 1492 CE. Muslims migrated from Arabia across the straights of Gibraltar to the ...

CAIRO — After the roof of the Sam ibn Nuh mosque collapsed, the men and women who worshiped there were determined to rebuild on a site where Muslims have prayed for more than 1,000 years. The ...

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 ...

Also, the selected mosques should reflect in one way or another some innovative elements related to what we call “future mosque design”. The shortlisted mosques will be announced and exhibited ...

If built, the design would stand apart from the expressive arches and bluish stonework of much of Mosul’s older architectural fabric. Destruction of the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri in Mosul ...

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I recognized these arches — with geometric patterns instead of religious figures — and the wide open spaces between them, as classic to Islamic architecture. To my right, the mihrab — a traditional ...