Doha: The Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center continues organising visits to many nominated mosques in ...

The Blue Mosque, in particular, has very cleverly taken that concept and incorporated it within more traditional Islamic design, where the high flat platform is used as a base to build the mosque ...

Nearly two years after breaking ground, the first phase of the Islamic Center of Naperville’s complex on 248th Avenue — a 28,400-square-foot mosque — is nearly complete.

Instead, this mosque is a cube within a cube with its exterior form focusing on the concept of simplicity. Here, clean lines ...

An Islam in the Americas prayer rug will also be in the works, highlighting the fast-growing Latino Muslim population. A Global Refugee Prayer Rug competition will recruit refugee designers and ...

Islam: A Mosque for Tomorrow; Islam: A Mosque for Tomorrow. 2 minute read. TIME. October 8, 1965 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... As artful blend of Islamic tradition and modern design, ...

Carlo Bugatti, one of the most innovative furniture designers of the late 19th and early 20th Century, would also use Islamic design effects, such as muqarnas and horseshoe arches, in his designs.

A July 1981 article in The Republic stated Masjid Jauharatul-Islam was the first mosque "built along Islamic design in the United States," and that as many as 300 had attended Friday prayers in ...

Early mosques were simple in design and structure, ... Here, we take a look at nine mosques from around the world, and their community’s Muslim heritage. Grand Mosque of West Sumatra, Indonesia.

3 Credits. This course examines the visual cultures of the Islamic world from 600 to present. It addresses various topics in the historiographic narratives and pedagogies of the field in a global ...

In a country where history is written in stone and soul, these five mosques stand as spiritual milestones. Each one holds the ...