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Representatives of the Muslim community in Komotini, northeastern Greece, asked authorities on Friday to investigate the causes of a pre-dawn fire at the city?s largest mosque amid suspicions it was caused by arsonists.

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A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said Saturday.

Guests of the iconic Selimiye Mosque in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne will soon be given socks free of charge to wear while visiting the mosque.

Edirne Mufti Emrullah Üzüm said the free sock distribution was going to begin soon to avoid any problems regarding the cleanliness of the rugs inside the mosque. 

Triple suicide bombings killed 142 people and wounded more than 350 others March 20 at mosques in the Yemeni capital attended by Shiite Huthi militiamen who have seized the city, medics said.

Erdoğan has told Castro that Cuban officials had already made an agreement with Saudi Arabia for the construction of a mosque, but Ankara would like to conduct its own project similar to Istanbul’s iconic Ortaköy mosque

The 22,000 Muslims of Constanta (southeastern Romania, on the Black Sea shore) celebrate on Friday the birth of Prophet Muhammad, a holiday called Mevlid Kandili in the Turkish-influenced local tradition.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed to hunt down those behind "heinous" attacks that killed at least 120 at the mosque of an Islamic leader who issued a call to arms against Boko Haram.
      

Pope Francis has started the second leg of his three-day visit to Turkey, in a richly-symbolic trip. Like his predecessor, he prayed at the Blue Mosque, which was his first stop in Istanbul, before visiting the Hagia Sophia, the St. Esprit Cathedral and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate on Nov. 29.

When a pope last visited Turkey — Benedict XVI in 2006 — Muslim-Catholic tensions were so high that the Vatican added a stop at Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque at the last minute in the hope of showing Benedict's respect for Islam.