Despite Protests, Mosque Plan Near 9/11 Site Wins Key Vote. Controversial mosque near WTC site is called a "house of evil." By ABC News. May 25, 2010, 12:55 PM.

May 18, 2010 — -- Plans for an Islamic cultural center and mosque near New York City's most hallowed ground have divided families of the nearly 3,000 people who perished on Sept. 11, 2001.

It's the national mosque of Turkey, and before going inside, After the Hagia Sofia, President Obama walked the short block to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque.

Islamic Group Drops Plans for Mosque. Members Seek Another County Site. August 29, 2001. By David Snyder.

The developer who wants to create a 15-story Islamic cultural center and mosque on Park Place near the World Trade Center site is named Sharif El-Gamal. Put your assumptions aside: He was born ...

The Blue Mosque at the centre of Wednesday’s raid is said to be one of the oldest in Germany. It was founded in Hamburg in the late 1950s by a group of exiled Iranians and businessmen.

The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617. War bounty was typically used to fund large-scale projects like this, but the Sultan chose to use ...

Since the early 1600s, the Blue Mosque has been quite the sight to behold, with an array of domes, semidomes and minarets (or narrow towers). It's also one of the biggest tourist draws in Istanbul.