The Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali, is a magnet for tourists, but it is increasingly difficult for locals to live a normal life around it.

Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali.

— -- The Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its iconic leaning minaret, which has towered over Iraq's second-largest city for over eight centuries, was destroyed by ISIS militants late Wednesday ...

When ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended to the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nouri in the Iraqi city of Mosul on July 5, 2014, it marked the jihadist group’s arrival at the pinnacle of ...

In 1940, when France surrendered to Nazi Germany, eyewitnesses said that the Great Mosque of Paris saved some Jews from persecution and deportation. The head of the mosque, Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit ...

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri may also have held a symbolic significance in the fight for Mosul. It was also the location of the first and only public appearance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic ...

Times reader “lachnowicz” captured this stunning view inside Great Mosque of Córdoba in Spain. One of the largest sacred Islamic buildings in the world, the mosque is slightly smaller than St ...

The Great Mosque was a marvel of North African architecture with lobed arches, hand-carved moldings and the adobe-style bricks used to construct most the area's structures.

Jack is International Security and Terrorism Correspondent for Newsweek. The U.S.-backed forces battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria have liberated the Great Mosque of Raqqa ...

In a long fight punctuated by moral victories, this may be the biggest yet: The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria announced Monday morning that it had secured the historic Grand Mosque of Raqqa ...

Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali.