Turkey hopes to expand its influence by investing in infrastructure and religious landmark buildings across the Western ...

Turkey builds biggest mosque of Balkans in Albania Mosque to open by end of 2019 has capacity of up to 10,000 worshippers. 18.01.2019 - Update : 18.01.2019 . By Esin Isik . ANKARA.

The Diyanet also financed the building of a similar mosque on a 10,000-square-meter parcel of land on George W. Bush Street in Tirana, Albania, the largest mosque in the Balkans, along with dozens ...

As Balkan men fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State, attacks at home are intensifying on the legitimacy of the liberal Islam that’s evolved in the Balkans over centuries.

As described a month ago here, the Balkan territory, ... Wahhabi bombast in mosque preaching now encompasses grotesque and vulgar anti-Christian insults. Near the end.

When completed in 2019, the hulking new central mosque will be the biggest in the Balkans, with enough room for 5,000 worshipers. And it more closely resembles the great old mosques of Istanbul than ...

In the middle of the night on May 7, 1993, the centuries-old Ferhadija Mosque in Bosnia-Herzegovina's city of Banja Luka was blown up. A few minutes later, there was another explosion, this time ...

Two thousand years of religious differences — but shared beliefs in justice and peace — converged on Baltimore yesterday as Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy prayed together for an en… ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- An online music video praising Osama bin Laden has driven home a troubling new reality: A radical brand of Islam embraced by al-Qaida and the Taliban is gaining a foothold in ...

As Balkan men fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State, attacks at home are intensifying on the legitimacy of the liberal Islam that’s evolved in the Balkans over centuries. Fear is ...