The whole world is a mosque, the Prophet Muhammad once said. With pious intent, a faithful Muslim can conjure a mosque almost anywhere, transforming a desert sand dune, airport departure lounge or ...

Pillars and the spiral ceiling of the Vali-e-Asr mosque are seen in Tehran, Iran. The architects behind the Vali-e-Asr mosque dispensed with the traditional rounded domes and towering minarets, ...

Mosques are the source of some of the most inspiring and beautiful architecture. From the dome of the Hagia Sophia to the perforated box of the M. Ridwan Kamil's Al-Irsyad mosque, Islamic ...

In this proposal for the Central Mosque of Pristina, Asar Consulting Engineers decided to use the traditional mosque components for a kind of new mosque design in a new form and a different ...

26 August 2007 Doha - The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has invited entries for an international contest to design mosques. The contest is open for engineering firms and offices in Qatar and ...

Persian architecture studio Fundamental Approach Architects have won first prize in the Golshahr Mosque and Plaza National Design Competition in Iran, proposing an atypical mosque design for the city ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A newly built avant-garde mosque in the heart of Iran's capital would have hard-liners shouting from the minarets – if there were any. The architects behind the Vali-e-Asr mosque ...