Imam Osama Hassan, left, and Victoria Islamic Center president Dr. Shahid Hashmi pray Asr at 4:15 p.m. in the prayer room. To their right is a hand crafted minbar, or pulpit the was donated to the ...

A restoration project has been commenced on a minbar (pulpit) of a mosque in Semnan province, which dates back to the Ilkhanid era (1256–1353). The wood ...