The towering minaret symbolizes a beacon of peace and tranquility.” Some Muslims, especially older ones born in other countries, see a mosque without a minaret as incomplete.

The Golden Age of Spain lasted from 711 until 1492 CE. Muslims migrated from Arabia across the straights of Gibraltar to the ...

I'm horrified." The mosque had been damaged during fighting in the ancient city in October 2012. As Rasha Elass reported on NPR's All Things Considered at that time, the mosque has a storied history: ...

The diversity of mosque architecture -- and minaret design, for that matter -- through the centuries is remarkable, wide enough to include buildings with Middle Eastern, South American and North ...

Work started this summer on the minaret, an Islamic tower akin to a bell tower in Christianity and focal point for many mosques around the world. As of this week, it took Sivac, the mosque’s ...