With more than 4.7 million hashtags, Notre Dame Cathedral in France ranks as the most Instagrammable religious landmark in ...

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 ...

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Muslims of Senegal consider themselves as followers of Sheikh Ibrahima Fall, and according to their beliefs, physical labor, service, good deeds, and devotion to one's Sufi master (Shaykh), are equal ...

Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s ... of Islam. “We have no notion of the accumulation of wealth being evil,” he once said, saying the important thing was “how you use ...

Half-British prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and taking over a philanthropic empire worth $13 billion.

Located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, this mosque boasts an incredible view of the Golden Horn and is considered to be Mimar Sinan’s most impressive ... mosque is very important to Muslims ...