With a rich history dating back thousands of years, Istanbul is chock-full of architectural marvels. One such wonder is the Blue Mosque, or the Sultan Ahmed Mosque as it is known to locals. The Blue ...

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Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s, the Blue ...

The mosque at the centre of the raid was founded in Hamburg in the late 1950s - DANIEL BOCKWOLDT/DPA VIA AP German police have raided one of the country’s oldest mosques in a crackdown on Islamic ...

Ana Navarro fans have reminded the star to be respectful of other cultures — after complaining that she had to remove her shoes while visiting a holy space in Turkey. “The View” host, 51, and her ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Benedict XVI slipped out of his red Prada loafers and padded in white slippered feet across the carpeted floor of Istanbul’s revered Blue Mosque on Thursday, in only the second ...

After the Hagia Sofia, President Obama walked the short block to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque. It's the national mosque of Turkey, and before going inside, ...

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Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, leave after an Ecumenical Prayer at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George in Istanbul November 29, 2014. Pope Francis and ...

Reporters haven't been able to track down the 87-year-old man seen in a video reciting a creed in Arabic. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — On the national day of mourning for Holocaust victims in the Netherlands, a ...

The Plateau Salam Mosque in Abidjan is a stunning sapphire enriching the lives of Ivorians across the Ivory Coast.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Francis prayed silently alongside a senior Islamic cleric in Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Saturday, in a gesture of inter-religious harmony in a country bordering the conflicts ...