The new Museum of Islamic Civilizations will open Friday in Turkey’s largest mosque. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate the museum, located in Istanbul’s Grand Camlica Mosque Complex. Built in a closed area of more than 100,000-square-feet, the museum includes works from the collections of the Topkapi Palace and Palace Collections ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A new Museum of Islamic Civilizations is set to be inaugurated on Friday in Turkiye’s largest mosque by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nation’s president. The museum, located in Istanbul’s Grand Camlica Mosque Complex and constructed in a closed area of 10,000 square meters (107,639 square feet), was prepared with works selected fro...
A U.K.-based initiative to raise awareness about the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem has gone global. For the second year in a row, more than 50 countries are set to take part in Aqsa Week 2022, organizers said. The event, which runs from Feb. 24 to March 2, is being organized by the British-based Friends of […]
Police say a Muslim father was gunned down outside his home, across the street from a mosque in Brooklyn Wednesday. NYPD officers responded to a call in the 200 block of Forbell Street for a shooting around 1 a.m. Police found a man lying next to his car with a gunshot wound to his head. […]