Yakutiye Madrasa, Erzurum. Central muqarnas, Islamic ornamental three-dimensional architectural decoration, embellishing a church ceiling, 1310. Credit: Richard Piran McClary Coptic capital with ...

For the first time, archaeologists have uncovered definitive proof ofearly Christian life in the Arabian Gulf, thanks to the discovery of a plaster Christian cross dating back around 1,400 years. The ...

Sometime in the 8th century C.E., the Christian community that had been living for hundreds of years on Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Arabian Gulf, packed up and walked away. At a time when relations ...

Christians worldwide commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus in Good Friday worship services, followed by celebration of his resurrection on Easter Sunday. But as often as the cross appears in Christian ...

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Ceramic vessels originating in the Islamic world once adorned the facades of churches and other Christian monuments, while Christian symbols such as the cross embellished columns, slabs, and other ...