Artist Rosabel Rosalind credits a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago with inspiring her to explore Jewish identity in ...

The Western Wall is one of the most sacred and contested religious sites in the world. Originally a retaining wall for the Second Temple, it has become a focal point of Jewish prayer and identity. But ...

The Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque is one of the top sights to see in the United Arab Emirates. In this guide, you will learn everything you need to know about the Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque dress code, ...

A striking example is the Imam Mosque, completed in 1629, where tile panels inside the prayer hall feature surprising motifs like monkeys, tigers and figures carrying wine bottles. Figurative ...

The mosque is home to the world’s largest handmade carpet and every wall here bears stunning inscriptions from the Quran that will leave you spellbound. Honouring regional craftsmanship while infusing ...

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

TABRIZ, Iran . The "Blue Mosque" in Tabriz, the capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan province, is a monument from the Karakoyunlu era and is one of the country’s most important historical buildings ...

The decision to utilise a trompe l’oeil effect with scaled, round arches is central to the mosque’s concept. These arches, which expand both horizontally and vertically as one approaches the qibla ...

A mosque, khanqah [a Sufi residential institute], and serai [a caravanserai, inn]. Among them, this is the Masjid-e-Jami, Captivating like the castles of heaven.

Protests erupted in north-west Delhi’s Mangolpuri on Tuesday morning during the demolition of a boundary wall of a mosque under an anti-encroachment drive amid heavy presence of the police and ...

The Al-Tunbugha Al-Maridani Mosque in Historic Cairo has reopened to the public after almost two decades of restoration, reports Nevine El-Aref Wednesday, 18 June 2025 French | عربي Home ...

The mosque has tiles up to two meters high on the wall, there’s marble on the floor, white stucco, wood in the upper areas of both floors and on the doors as well as the green tiles on the roofs.