In 705 CE, the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I transformed the basilica into a grand mosque, ... Built initially during the Abbasid period and modified later by the Ottomans, ...

Restoration work continues at the Fethiye Mosque (formerly the Ani Cathedral), the first conquest mosque in Anatolia, where ...

But Dr Irfan al-Alawi, executive director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation which obtained the new photographs from inside the Grand Mosque, says the removal of the Ottoman and Abbasid ...

The house of Khadija, the Prophet’s first wife, was destroyed in 2006 to make room for public lavatories. In August the government initiated a $21 billion project that will allow the Grand Mosque to ...

The mosque, originally built during the Abbasid era and massively expanded under Saudi rule, spans over 110,000 square meters and accommodates more than 350,000 worshippers.