To go with the Victoria Islamic Center’s new mosque, a new piece of holy furniture adorns the space. The minbar, or pulpit where the imam preaches the five daily prayers, sits high in each ...

Following the completion of the first phase of the Erbil Citadel lighting plan, the second phase was implemented tonight, May ...

The mosque, with 22 green-tiled domes and minbar (prayer niche) inlaid with renowned Iznik tiles, is Cairo's earliest Ottoman mosque, built in 1528 A.D., eleven years after the Ottoman army under ...

The wooden pulpit is a piece of furniture at the Imam Hussein Mosque that stands tall at Jovin village of Sorkheh county, Sorkheh tourism chief Bahman Akhlaqi announced on Tuesday. A minbar is where ...

The first mosques were, therefore ... a niche that indicates the direction of prayer, and the minbar, a pulpit for the preacher to give the sermon. Other elements also became common, such as ...

Inside the mosque, there is a simple mihrab – a niche in the wall which indicates the direction of Mecca, the direction in which Muslims face when praying – as well as a minbar – the flight ...

Painters worked to make the minbar, the pulpit where the imam stands, blend in with the stonework. The name of the mosque is Masjid Isa Ibn Maryam, which translates to Mosque of Jesus Son of Mary.

In the middle of the minbar the date of its construction is inscribed, showing the year 727 AH, and in its beneath the name of the designer is engraved, the official added. A restoration project ...

The mosque, however, does not conform to the usual four-iwan plan ... Other highlights include an exquisitely carved wooden minbar, which an inscription identifies as being 700 years old, and an ...