Mosque

A bomb attack was carried out during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pol-e-Khomri city of Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan. Director of Baghlan Information and Culture Department said that the attack caused deaths and injuries. The…

Minister of Culture and Tourism Nuri Ersoy has published a list of Turkish wooden-pillared mosques deserving inclusion in UNESCO's permanent list of world cultural heritage. One of the mosques added to UNESCO's list is the 7th-century-old…

The historical Grand Mosque in Türkiye's Afyonkarahisar province, constructed on 40 wooden poles during the Seljuk period between 1272 and 1277, has been included in UNESCO's World Heritage List. Despite nearly 750 years, the mosque still…

A fire broke out in the 170-year-old Hilal Bey Mosque, one of the most important archaeological mosques in Egypt's Dekahliye province. The fire caused no casualties but completely destroyed the historical mosque. The fire is believed to…

Restoration work continues at the Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital, which is located in the Divriği district of Sivas province in Türkiye and is under protection by UNESCO. Being built between 1228 and 1243 during the Anatolian Seljuk…

A part of the historic mosque in the Kaduna province of Nigeria collapsed during evening prayers. Ten people were found under the rubble during search and rescue efforts. Twenty-five people were injured as well. Authorities said they had…

A 32-year-old attacker, hidden among the congregation during prayers at the Omar Mosque in New Jersey, USA, stabbed the imam of the mosque. The attacker was caught by the people in the mosque, at whom he waved his knife to escape, and…

The death toll in the suicide bombing attack on a mosque by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the city of Khyber Peshawar, Pakistan, reached 90 and the number of injured reached 200. During the noon prayer, the blast caused the…

Two mosques in the Polatlı district of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, were set on fire in the morning by an unidentified person. According to the information gathered, the suspect started the fire by igniting the felt at the entrance of…

The dome of a mosque was completely burned down and collapsed in a fire that broke out at the Islamic Center Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital. The mosque, located in a busy area, was quickly brought under control thanks to 21 fire…