COTONOU, Benin – Tensions have mounted in Benin after authorities cleared illegal structures from sidewalks including temporary awnings beside mosques where large numbers of worshippers gather for ...

Kansas is home to thousands of Muslims, but just a handful of mosques. To keep up with the demands of the slowly but steadily growing Muslim population, one of Kansas’s biggest mosques has been ...

After almost 30 years of planning and fundraising, Ithaca’s Islamic community has raised enough money to build the first mosque in the area — something it hopes to see happen within the next three ...

Area Muslims seek to build new house of worship in Big Flats Group has worshiped at Big Flats location since the 1980s $1.5 million project tentatively scheduled for completion in June 2016 The ...

COLLE DI VAL D'ELSA, Italy (Reuters) - For centuries, bells in a towering Catholic church have tolled daily in this honey-colored town that embodies Tuscan serenity with its landscape of cypress trees ...

SAN’A, Yemen — The inauguration of an enormous new mosque named after Yemen’s authoritarian president has bewildered the people of this impoverished Arab country — especially when they learned it cost ...

Every Olympics in recent memory has opened with an aerial shot of a new stadium set in the glamorous host city. Come the 2012 London games, a very big mosque may take up much of the stadium's environs ...

PARIS -- A French court Tuesday gave the green light for the construction of a mega mosque in the city of Marseille, following years of delays caused by challenges from residents and local businesses.

The Islamic Society of Eastern Idaho has a new place to call home. A new Muslim mosque opened its doors Friday in Pocatello. This is the only mosque in Eastern Idaho. The next closet mosque is in ...

On Thursday a friend asked me the meaning of the Arabic words on the historic Abou Ben Adhem Shrine Mosque at 601 E. St. Louis St. I didn't know, but I certainly was curious. So I went to take a look ...