When a 17th-century Ottoman sultan ordered architect Mehmet Aga to build a mosque to rival a majestic former Byzantine church, the result was an imposing structure of cascading domes and an interior ...
The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for ...
MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- What would Afghanistan look like without war? It could look like the oasis of peace that is the Blue Mosque standing in its flower-filled park in the center of Mazar-e ...