Architects in Bangladesh have long been designing cutting-edge modernist mosques, but this rose-colored structure on the ...

Founded by the Mengücekide emir Ahmed Shah following the victory of the Seljuk Turks over the Byzantine army at the battle of Malazgirt in 1071, the mosque is dominated externally by the hexagonal, ...

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 ...

Over the years and centuries, they would gain multiple standard, functional features, such as the mihrab, a niche that indicates the direction of prayer, and the minbar, a pulpit for the preacher ...

The exhibition juxtaposes sacred objects with contemporary critique, inviting us to consider whether modern reinterpretations of tradition clarify or distort the past.