At dinner one evening in Bukhara, Samatar’s friend Diane says that ... This led them to a place that local people called Ak Metchet (the white mosque), a compound in southeast Uzbekistan where the ...

This edition features Jeffrey Yeates’ weeklong trip to Uzbekistan ... day exploring other buildings in Bukhara, including a ...

Uzbekistan is brimming with spellbinding architecture and magnificent blue-tiled mosques (Picture ... s spacious seats for the journey to Bukhara, a smaller and more intensely Islamic city ...

The unusual Juma Mosque is supported by over ... Highlights of Uzbekistan is 7 nights and includes Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand. The Golden Road to Samarkand is 11 nights with an additional ...

When a woman was invited to attend a funeral at a mosque in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, she wasn’t sure how to wear the required headscarf respectfully. So, she went next door for advice.

Mosques were once a rare sight in Japan, but no longer. The latest, Masjid Istiqlal Osaka, opened in Osaka’s Nishinari Ward last year. It is housed in a former factory building.

Just a decade ago, Uzbekistan had a reputation for tricky travel, plagued by complex visa rules and corruption. But since the ...