From misty Pekoe trails in Sri Lanka to Chiang Mai’s temple circuits, these are our top 25 picks for places to visit in Asia in 2025.
Cox & Kings’ specialist tours are designed for culture lovers who want to immerse themselves in the places they visit ...
The configuration of the mosque, the worshipping place for Muslims, traces its history to the courtyard of the religion's founder. The first mosques were, therefore, simple open spaces marked for ...
A country in Central Asia boasts some of the most stunning historical architecture in the world, with Islam playing a significant role in its aesthetics.
Issues related to “freeing of temples” from government control and Hindu claims over Muslim monuments, such as the Sambhal mosque and Ajmer Dargah, are likely to come up during a meeting of saints ...
Genghis Khan invaded Bukhara in the 13th century – the mausoleum’s robustness ... we find the enormous Bibi-Khanym Mosque. Local legend has it that any woman who crawls under its monumental marble ...
Its two corner domes and grand entrance door echo the architectural style of the madrassas and mosques of Samarkand and Bukhara from the Middle Ages. The semi-dome above the entrance and the ...
Uzbekistan’s mosques are truly something to behold ... we’re back in Afrosiyab’s spacious seats for the journey to Bukhara, a smaller and more intensely Islamic city 270km northwest.
Those sharing it claimed that this was a mosque in California, which remained safe from the wildfire. One person shared the photo on Facebook, writing, “This is the power of Allah Almighty. Allah ...
A Muslim convert threatened to "flatten" a mosque, plotted to attack an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of terrorism and researched potential military and police targets, a jury heard.
Raking up the temple-mosque controversy, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad Mahant Ravindra Puri on Monday demanded that ancient temples "converted" into mosques across the country ...
Mahant Ravindra Puri, president of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, calls for vacating ancient temples converted into mosques. He emphasizes that there's no ban on Muslims visiting Maha Kumbh ...