One’s eyes are certainly drawn upward when you step inside the Blue Mosque, but when you look down, you’ll find floors lined with wall-to-wall carpet—an essential for Muslim prayer.

The simplest mosque would be a prayer room with a wall marked with a “mihrab” – a niche indicating the direction of Mecca, which Muslims should face when praying. A typical mosque also ...

also leaving racist slogans on the walls, including ‘Death to Arabs’. Eyewitnesses reported that settlers entered the eastern neighborhood of Marda, broke one of the mosque’s gates, and threw ...

Laser scanning was used to replicate newly constructed areas to fit into the mosque’s historically held style. Among added features are interior walls decorated with wooden and marble artistic ...