Córdoba was once the capital of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain. At Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, which was built in the late ...

The minaret of Safadi Mosque on Rainbow Street ... it would’ve been bigger than any temple in Rome. Make time for the Umayyad Palace and the Jordan Archaeological Museum, and stay for sublime ...

Unlike its Gulf neighbours, many of which have gone full throttle into tourism megaprojects, Kuwait is taking a more measured ...

Thousands of people flocked to the historically important Umayyad Mosque in the capital of Damascus for the Eid prayers. Those who attended the Eid prayers at the Umayyad Mosque from various ...

Constructed in 879, Cairo's oldest surviving mosque in its original form was built to accommodate the Tulunid Dynasty founder, Ahmad Ibn Tulun, and his entire army during Friday prayers. His mosque ...

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 The shop at the museum entrance was selling the ...

Colonists stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem Tuesday, under heavy protection from Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Palestinian news agency (WAFA), citing eyewitnesses ...

Under a sky bathed in bright light, the island of Djerba reveals a unique architectural heritage: its mosques. Scattered in ...

A man prays with a gun at his feet in Umayyad Mosque, in central Damascus, before midday Friday prayers during Eid, on June 6, 2025, in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images) Syria's interim ...