The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus is considered the fourth most famous Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in the world.

Home to the Great Pyramid of Cholula ... which gained much of its surviving historic architecture between the 14th and 17th centuries. This includes the Bibi-Khanym Mosque (pictured), constructed for ...

DAMASCUS – The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog met Syria’s new leader on Feb 8, in a first visit to Damascus since the ousting of Mr Bashar al-Assad, who was repeatedly accused ...

Jadid was locked up in Mazzeh prison, in Damascus. He died at Tishreen Hospital ... in February and the November takeover of Mecca's Great Mosque by a commando of Sunni fundamentalist Islamists.

A petition to support the preservation of the Auwal Mosque in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, has garnered more than 4,000 signatures. This comes as a decision is awaited on whether a hotel development next to ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sweden's government on Monday accused a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden's ...

Religious sites have commonly been targeted by Israeli attacks, with 79 percent of mosques being destroyed in Gaza alone, including the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldest mosque in Gaza.

The Iraqi government is studying the possibility of Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein carrying out an official visit to neighboring Syria amid a debate over openness towards Damascus’ new rulers. In ...

Special prayers were held at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in memory of Muhammad Deif, the former commander of Hamas's military department, and other senior Hamas figures who were eliminated in the war.

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...