Although not a first timer, performing the 2025 Hajj was evidently a profound experience, being one of the privileged guests of King Salman bin Abdulaziz.The trip which lasted for 16 days (May 27 to ...

The Great Umayyad Mosque, with its 11th-century minaret, was reduced to dust. The historic souks (markets) and caravans, once signifiers of life and culture in Aleppo, were destroyed by bombings and ...

Food, religious rituals, gender relations … Ibn Battuta described them all in his travelogue, which covered the medieval ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, I observed a change inside the courtyard: there are now waist-high chains dividing the space into women’s and men’s areas, with the women channelled into a far corner to ...

Damascus, SANA-Amidst the trees in the garden of National Museum in Damascus, young Farouk Saies presented new models of the minarets of the Umayyad Mosque. This project, titled "The Fortress Game ...

Running until May 3, the ‘Masterpieces of Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation’ exhibition is a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in the artistic and scientific achievements of Islamic ...

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.

The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as a result of the building style that was the former Church of John the Baptist.

The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria. Since 2012, Aleppo - Syria's largest city - has been a key ...