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TIRANA – Construction in the long awaited mosque in Tirana is set to start in the Albanian capital after officials gave the building permit, fulfilling a 1990s dream. “This is a joint project undertaken in cooperation with Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate,” Skender Brucaj, the head of the Albanian Muslim Community, told Anadolu Agency on Monday, December 1. The new mosque, …

Posted by – Abdul Alim Source: The Guardian Government of Andalusia says Diocese of Córdoba is ignoring site’s history as a place of worship for Muslims and Christians Inscriptions from the Qur’an share space with a baroque altarpiece in Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral, hinting at the building’s storied past. But in recent years the word mosque has been removed from the monument’s …

CAIRO – A land has been allocated to build a mosque in Cuba’s Havana where Christopher Columbus referred to the presence of a Muslim place of worship long centuries ago, according to media reports. “This idea first came out as our foundation’s project and bilateral visits then took place,” Mustafa Tutkun, vice general manager of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs …

ISTANBUL— Catering to the needs of Muslim women, a growing number of mosques across the globe are going “female-friendly” by offering more space for women and seeking their  involvement in worship places. “We began questioning why we are not catering to women's needs and not creating architecture to meet the needs of men and women,” Fiyaz Mughal, the founder and …

14 mosques established in the first 150 years of Islam, after the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) migrated to Madina: 1. Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria: 96 years after migration (AH) The site of the Umayyad Mosque was originally a Christian church and a Roman temple prior to that. After the Muslim conquest of Syria, the church was converted into …

Mosques throughout the Muslim world have some of the most intricate and exquisite architecture ever created by mankind. There’s too much amazing architecture in them to cover in just one post, so we decided to focus simply on the mosque’s ceilings – something the faithful might see when they look up to the heavens. These images show just how heavily …