“While they’re not mandatory for a mosque, a minaret is considered a traditional ... and adorned by calligraphic design elements. As of Friday, the structural elements were in place, the ...

Culture Minister said he had not given permission to destroy the mosque's minaret The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for ...

was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727, the 11-meter Siraji minaret, was demolished to create road expansion following complaints of traffic around the mosque ...

Only the cemetery in Damascus's devastated suburb of Jobar showed signs of life on Friday as residents returned to visit and ...

LAHORE: A labourer was killed while two others were injured when a minaret of an under-construction mosque fell on them on Vehari Road in Multan on Friday. They were busy fixing the minaret of the ...

Images published Friday by a local Gaza news site and the Gaza City municipality show the mosque's roof demolished ... but still intact, minaret. Israel says its aim is to eliminate Hamas in ...

Lakemba Mosque, also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib, has proposed to affix four loudspeakers to its minaret in a new ... once a week prior to the Friday prayer, referred to as the Jummah.

At least 38 worshippers died and 71 other were injured when four centuries-old mosque minaret collapsed in Morocco on Friday. The Lalla Khenata mosque minaret collapsed in the old Bab el Bardiyine ...

In 2013, a mayor’s council in Swedish capital Stockholm had approved the call for prayer from the minaret of a mosque only for Friday prayers, in a first for the country.

BASRA, Iraq July 16 (Reuters) - The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and ...