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Video: A place for people to pray and birds to sing

  • Written by Anurag Papolu, Multimedia Editor
imageA bird house on an exterior wall of the Yeni Valide mosque in Istanbul.Christiane Gruber / Anurag Papolu, CC BY-ND

“At the very core, the mosque is the sacred place of Islam. It is where men and women and children go to pray,” says University of Michigan art history professor Christiane Gruber. But, according to her research on bird...

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