For those of you who want to visit a modern mosque in the heart of rural Bangladesh, Bait-ur-Rayyan is the perfect pick for you. This charming single-storied prayer space is more than a mosque ...

Eid al-Fitr was celebrated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with large gatherings in open grounds and mosques, along with ...

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, famous for its leaning eight-century-old minaret of Hadba, has recently been restored to its former glory. It was destroyed by ISIS militants in 2017 and is ...

a remote village in northern Bangladesh serves as a sanctuary for the hijra [transgender] community—a once-revered but now persecuted group. In March 2024, a mosque built by and for hijras ...

The Department of Awqaf in Sharjah has completed construction of a mosque and a school in the Republic of Bangladesh in collaboration with the Sharjah Charity International. The mosque, spanning 144 ...

as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches, mosques, and religious sites also succumbed to the group’s violence. The tomb of Jonah was destroyed in the summer of 2014, soon after ISIS ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group ...

At the heart of this transformation is a Quran study group, offering hijras the religious education they were long denied, and a newly built mosque - the first in Bangladesh to welcome them as ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group ...