Today, the Umayyad Mosque stands proud with three minarets but originally it was built with none. The three minarets are the Minaret of the Bride, the first minaret built under the Abbasids ...
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...
Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...
The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of ... The mosque features three minarets, one of which, the "Minaret of Jesus," is particularly unique. Islamic tradition holds that Jesus ...
Two simple minarets stand on the roof ... from the cities but also from Islamic architecture such as the Grand Umayyad Mosque, one of the oldest in the country. King Faisal mosque's design ...