As one of the only female architects in a country where women rarely even enter mosques, Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh's new Baitur Rouf Mosque, which has just won ...

A mosque or masjid, which means place of prostration in Arabic, is meant to be a clean and tranquil place for Muslims to meet and offer their five daily prayers. It can be anything from a simple room ...

Manhattan studio RUX Design have won a competition to design a mosque for the UAE with their open-air plaza called The Vanishing Mosque. The design features an ablution pool beneath an open-air, ...

The Middle East has long supported spiritual architecture, bestowing it scale, innovation and budgets that have recently afforded us diverse wonders Emerging models for the design of spaces meant for ...

While growing up in Karachi, I spent most of my childhood at my local mosque, one of the few spaces where my parents could let their guard down in a city reputed for crime. I loved going for Friday ...

DUBAI, Dec 25: In the Dubai mosque design competition, one of the victors is a non-Muslim student. Anna De Sa, hailing from Brazil, secured the third position in the challenge that tasked students ...

Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh’s new Baitur Rouf Mosque But there is little of the conventional about the 45-year-old Tabassum or her design, which eschews ...

DHAKA: As one of the only female architects in a country where women rarely even enter mosques, Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh's new Baitur Rouf Mosque, which has ...