But Williams said the mosque hadn’t fully signaled its presence until its most recent building project. A team of contractors is nearing completion of a minaret — the kind of Islamic tower ...

In the year 1184 CE, Andalusian traveller, geographer, and poet Abul Husayn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr visited Damascus ... mention of the mosque. "Isa shall descend to his minaret [The ...

The 1,000-year-old minaret of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque fell Wednesday during heavy ... Regime forces seized the strategic town of Otaiba, east of Damascus, breaking a critical weapons supply ...

As enduring landmarks go, the minaret of the Tower of David in Jerusalem has most ... The minaret was built as a sort of extension of an early mosque. The Ottomans were not the first rulers ...

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, is one of the oldest ... The mosque features three minarets, one of which, the "Minaret of Jesus," is particularly unique.

A ceremony at the the Great Mosque ... the minaret with its iconic slouch, a position that it naturally assumed over centuries. The engineering team consulted with experts on the Leaning Tower ...

Following the intercultural concert he has organized in the Center of Mediterranean Music, Ennejma-Ezzahra, in Sidi Bou Said, titled "The Minaret and the Tower", Riadh Feri explains his creed ...