Last Friday (February 14, 2025), the Umayyad Mosque, one of Damascus’ most iconic landmarks, witnessed yet another historic moment. One of Syria’s most esteemed scholars, Sheikh Muhammad Mujir ...

His mere existence makes him a figure of hate for extremists, but Ludovoic-Mohamed Zahed won’t be silenced. He talks to our Writer at Large ...

There are two versions of Sayyida Zaynab, the suburb south of Damascus and home to a shrine for a revered Muslim figure. One ...

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun was a figure closely linked to the former regime of Bashar Al-Assad, and has been in hiding since the ...

On the blessed Friday of Feb. 28, 2025, our Muslim community will come together to celebrate a long-cherished dream finally becoming a reality—the Grand Opening of Woodland Mosque. This momentous ...

Damascus, SANA-The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus is considered the fourth most famous Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in ...

A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

Constructed between 1996 and 2007 at the request of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is by far the most ...

The mosque in Altadena, which served a tight-knit Muslim community for 42 years, burned to the ground in one of the Los Angeles area’s deadliest fires in January — leaving the congregation ...