Culture and religion, both two things got great relationship thousand years ago, one of the proof is Zeyrek Camii Mosque.
Zeyrek Camii Mosque is a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey who previously served as a church, Church of Pantocrator. The church used to be one of the important historic sites in the Byzantine period.

Dedicated to St. Saviour Pantocrator, this church was founded by the Empress Eirene, wife of John II Comnenus, who completed the southern part of the church before his death in 1124. He was also the first person buried here (sarkofagusnya then moved in 1960 to the Museum of Archaeology. But now in the exonarthex, Ayasofya, Turkey).

As quoted from Sacred-destinations, Thursday (25/08/2011), the northern part of the church was then added by Emperor John II Comnenus after the death of Eirene. The church was dedicated to the Virgin Eleousa. The emperor also has other churches that are connected via a chapel between the northern and southern churches.
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Kairaouine Mosque (Djemaa el Kairaouine) in the city of Fes is the second largest mosque in Morocco (after Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca new). Section mosque tower built in the year 956 and is the oldest Islamic building in Fes.

As quoted from Sacred-destinations, this mosque is also the holiest mosque in Morocco that regulate the timing of all the festivals of Islam that is in place. Kairaouine Mosque established in 857 by Fatima al-Fihri, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from the holy city of Kairouan in Tunisia. Fatima and her sister, Mariam, inherited a lot of money from their father, and Fatima vowed to spend all of it at a mosque suitable for the Tunisian community in Fes.

Its present form is largely reconstructed 10th-century under Caliph of Cordoba, Abd Er Rahman III, and reconstruction of the 12th century under royal Almoravids.
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Aali Gaapou Isfahan is a beautiful place in Iran, or officially named as Islamic Republic of Iran. This country also known as its oil, and because of the wealth on oil particularly, its got little tension within its neighbor Iraq.

The word “Iran” has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia. Both “Persia” and “Iran” are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, “Iran” is the name used officially in political contexts.
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