The Ismaili Center Houston is opening to the public on Dec. 13, 2025. After nearly 20 years in the making, Houston's historic Ismaili Center — the first in the United States — is opening its doors to ...

This story has been updated. The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s approximately 20 million Shiite Imami Ismaili Muslims, arrived in Atlanta Tuesday evening as part of a yearlong celebration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prince Karim Aga Khan at an event on Oct. 2, 2019, in London. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images Prince Karim Aga Khan, who died on Feb ...

HOUSTON — Houston is soon to be home for the first Ismaili Center in the U.S. The Ismaili Center Houston is meant to be a space for civic outreach and understanding of people from different ...

Earlier this fall, when bulldozers and other construction equipment appeared at one of the most coveted vacant corners in Texas, Houstonians who had watched the site for years turned giddy. Work was ...

Thirteen-year-old me stared up at my religious-education teacher, puzzled, and then back down at the jumble of materials strewn across the ground: white poster board, popsicle sticks, cotton balls, ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into ...

Prince Amyn Aga Khan, left, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner participate in a tree-planting ceremony at the site of the under-construction Ismaili Center Houston on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. A massive, ...

The decades-long quest to bring the first-ever U.S. location of a massive religious center to Houston is almost complete. Ismaili Center Houston, a five-story, 11-acre religious center for Ismaili ...

This was originally featured in the Houston Chronicle's HouWeAre newsletter about race, culture and identity. You can sign up here. Many of us outside of the Islamic faith may think only of the ...