The nation's first purpose-built mosque opened in Cedar Rapids in the 1930s, and its history is still instructive, writes ...

The restored church of St George of the Latins in Famagusta was handed over on Wednesday by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, while in Larnaca Tuzla mosque was also being delivered after ...

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The mosque was built in 1989 for the 100 or so Muslim families living in the area at the time. In the decades since, that community has grown exponentially.

Turkey has converted the ancient Chora church in Istanbul, previously a museum for over 70 years, into a mosque, marking the second major conversion in recent months.

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The mosque is considerably more than a house of prayer. The compound includes a library and dormitories for 30 pilgrims, as well as a conference hall equipped with facilities for the latest in ...

KOLKATA, India (RNS) — Last Eid, 49-year-old Partha Sarathi Basu added a fresh coat of paint to the Amanati Mosque in the Barasat district of Bengal, 15 miles north of Kolkata in eastern India.

A proposed mosque in a residential zone in Marlboro is under review by the township's zoning board. The mosque's capacity would be 264 people, with peak attendance expected during Friday prayers ...

The 12-year-old loved looking at the grass, leaves and trees around the mosque where he lived and studied in India's capital Delhi. He moved here two years ago from a neighbouring state after his ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday formally reopened the The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known locally as Kariye, as a mosque.

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- For nearly 400 years, a 16th-century Ottoman mosque stood in Banja Luka before it was leveled by explosives in the middle of the night on May 7, 1993.