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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, is going to be redesigned, and a proposed master plan just leaked to YouTube. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the project, details about the redesign have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mosque covers a circular footprint of around 17,167 square feet (1,595 square meters). Its shape is not just an aesthetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next phase in the life of a Halifax place of worship can finally get under way, with planning approval given to demolish ...