The Sancaklar Mosque is a privately funded mosque built on the outskirts of Istanbul for the clients’ extended family and local community. It is a radical reimagining of a mosque with architect and ...

A woman wrapped in a Turkish national flag gestures outside the Hagia Sophia museum The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul - originally ... turned back into a mosque.

Spread across two continents and between two seas, Istanbul is a city of empires past. The Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and Galata Tower are just some of the many historic structures ...

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Tirana, Albania on Thursday inaugurated the Namazgah Mosque, the largest in ...

the Roman Catholic leader added that his "thoughts go to Istanbul". Hagia Sophia was built as a Christian cathedral nearly 1,500 years ago and turned into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of 1453.

After a year of war in Gaza and the Middle East, the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar rekindled hopes for a grand U.S.-led ...

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The documents also show extensive efforts to deceive Israel about its plans as the group laid the groundwork for a bold ...

Turkey’s president has traveled to Albania’s capital to inaugurate a Turkish-funded mosque as part of a trip to boost ties ...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said Hamas, designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. and EU, "will ...