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.

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.

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.

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 ...