The mosque’s interior decorations are some of the most brilliant examples of Ottoman artistic tradition. A total of 21,043 hand-crafted tiles produced in the Iznik and Kütahya workshops are ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque Sunday night, killing 29 people during prayers, a shocking strike on a place of worship similar to the one ...

Baghdad security spokesman Qassim Atta and Ahmed Abdulghafur al-Samarrai, head of the blue-domed Umm al-Qura mosque that was targeted and one of the founders of an anti-Qaeda militia force comprised ...

With a rich history dating back thousands of years, Istanbul is chock-full of architectural marvels. One such wonder is the Blue Mosque, or the Sultan Ahmed Mosque as it is known to locals. The Blue ...

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

Adorned with more than 20,000 blue handcrafted İznik tiles, stained-glass windows, and the golden brushstrokes of a 17th-century calligrapher, the Blue Mosque is the legacy of Sultan Ahmet I ...

With its cascading domes and six minarets, Sultan Ahmed Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque in abroad, is one of the Ottoman imperial mosques in Istanbul and one of the most impressive ...

One of Istanbul's iconic structures, widely recognized by local and foreign tourists, the Blue Mosque, locally known as Sultan Ahmed Mosque, is scheduled to be reopened for worship on the occasion of ...

They have been raised by the Blue Mosque's attendants since it was built in the 12th century and they have become one of its famous symbols. To one side of the mosque complex is the pigeon-house.