However, the Blue Mosque's the smaller dome draws attention to the negative space between the minarets and the much lower roof, particularly the elaborate and stepped design.

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

Baghdad security spokesman Qassim Atta and Ahmed Abdulghafur al-Samarrai, head of the blue-domed Umm al-Qura mosque that was targeted and one of the founders of an anti-Qaeda militia force comprised ...