You don’t want to commit a faux pas or get in the way of active prayer ... without sitting room to lace up your shoes. The most popular mosques in Istanbul get a lot of non-Muslim tourists ...

The first mosques were, therefore, simple open spaces marked for ritual prayer use. Over the years ... in parts of the world with relatively new Muslim communities, where some theorists have ...

Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

Six men died after a gunman opened fire in the Islamic Cultural Centre in the ... Sitting just outside the entrance to the mosque's prayer room, Nesrine Adda and Sakina Ouchane wore dark green ...

According to Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem, approximately 60,000 worshippers attended the Friday prayer in the mosque. The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that Israeli forces ...