Category: Heritage and Environment
Plant More Trees
How I miss the missing trees, and the green spaces where we grazed our goats. Today, many cities are turning into veritable deserts: that's the sort o [...]
Beautiful Chinese-Style Mosques
Many Chinese mosques are a blend two cultures: Arab and Chinese. Here are some beautiful Chinese-style mosques around the world!
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Play Your Part in Conserving Water
We have to conserve water as an act of worship, we have to regard it as a sacred duty imposed on each one of us to continue to preserve life for futur [...]
Europe’s Oldest Mosque May Be Buried Underground in Spain
Spanish archaeologists have detected parts of a palace and a building that may be the oldest mosques in Europe, Live Science reported. They use a spec [...]
Africa’s First Mosque Renovated
Believed to be the first mosque in Africa, Al-Najashi mosque in Ethiopia has been drawing more visitors after been renovated recently by a Turkish aid [...]
Inside a 700-Year-Old Mosque in Ghana
Located in the "Northern Region of Ghana, the Larabanga mosque is the oldest in the country and also one of the oldest in West Africa. Built with mud [...]
Tibet’s Lhasa Mosque
One of the Highest Mosques on Earth
Standing at more than 3650 meters above sea level, the Lhasa Great Mosque, also known as Hebalin Mosque, in Tibet, [...]
This Muslim Astronomer Calculated the Length of the Solar Year Long Before the Use of Telescopes!
Al-Battani, also known by his Latinized name Albategnius, was an Arab astronomer and mathematician born in 858 C.E. in Harran, a state of Battan in mo [...]
1,200-Year-Old Mosque Discovered
At the site, an open-air mosque was found, with a prayer niche facing south towards Makkah.
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the remains of on [...]
Greener Earth in Support of ‘One Tree by One Person’
Bangalore: 'Greener Earth', an event to encourage tree planting and showcase the adverse effects of air pollution, was recently organized at the Magni [...]