Hate crimes against mosques and Muslims have been on the rise across Europe in recent years, fueled in part by the growing political power of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant groups.
It was built by Ebu'l Manuçehr Bey, after Seljuk Sultan Alparslan won the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Situated near the middle of two deep bottlenecks of the Arpaçay River on the Turkish-Armenian…
In a time of modern engineering and high technology, a structure built without a foundation (in the traditional sense) and without a single nail may sound like a house of cards, but these mosques…