Building a new mosque is often a hot-button topic in Germany. Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural gap. German mosques are rarely impressive and grand. Islamic houses of ...
Image caption, A bed in an early Islamic house would have looked like ... Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767. There were around 1 million people living ...
Walls in homes and mosques were decorated with colourful patterns like this one. Many buildings had patterns on them made with tiles. Others had handwriting called calligraphy on them with words ...
America needs to rebuild itself, not Gaza. It needs to police its own streets, not Gaza streets. In his first year in office, ...
The street was named after numerous workshops that sold all kinds of weaponry. However, all the Islamic buildings in Souq Al-Selah Street are now neglected.
The first stage of the Islamic Center of Naperville’s new complex on 248th Avenue, the construction of a 28,400-square-foot mosque, is complete. As of last weekend, the mosque — a project ...
Another problem is that Darke wants to prove not only Romanesque’s overwhelming stylistic debt to Islamic building, but also the presence of superior Islamic workmen on site everywhere.
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...