It was first built as a church, but later was transformed into a mosque, later a museum and recently declared as a mosque. Construction work had begun upon an order by the Byzantine emperor ...
"We built the main prayer hall first and ... Amin approached Sembawang MP Ong Ye Kung recently and was assured that the mosque would be left standing until at least 2030.
The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I ... since the Ottomans had not recently claimed victory in a war. This decision made the construction of the building highly controversial from its ...