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Chora’s opening as the Kariye Mosque comes just weeks after Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered its ...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer ...

A Turkish court has delayed a decision on whether the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul can be converted into a mosque. The Council of State - Turkey's highest administrative body - said it would make a ...

Heterogeneous Turkey shows influences from the Middle East, Mediterranean, the Balkan peninsula, and Central Asia, but it’s much more than its clichéd image of where East meets West.

Nestled within Istanbul's historic Fatih district by the Golden Horn, Istanbul University and the Grand Bazaar, Süleymaniye Mosque is considered one of the city's most impressive Ottoman mosques.

Islamists in Turkey long called for it to be converted to a mosque but secular opposition members opposed the move. The proposal prompted criticism from religious and political leaders worldwide.

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s ...

We make it simple with a whole host of filters you can quickly play around with: Carsi Mosque, Saltoğlu Cami and Hacegan Parkı are the closest points of interest to Adıyaman Çarşı. It could make sense ...

A 37-year-old man from Turkey was arrested hours later; the Dutch justice minister said it is unclear what… The shocking massacre of 50 people attending Friday prayers at mosques in Christchurch ...

But they have no idea where they will pray next. In the building next door, a mosque stands empty in the Munich Forum for Islam (MFI), an organization set up in 2014 to promote a modern ...