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    The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جَـامِـع حَـلَـب الْـكَـبِـيْـر, Jāmi‘ Ḥalab al-Kabīr) is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo...
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    buildings of the ancient city include: The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جَـامِـع حَـلَـب الْـكَـبِـيْـر‎, Jāmi‘ Ḥalab al-Kabīr) is the largest and one of the...
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    sections in Al-Madina Souq (part of the Old City of Aleppo World Heritage Site), including parts of the Great Mosque of Aleppo and other medieval buildings...
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  • though most of the women and children were sold into slavery. Also included in the destruction, was the burning of the Great Mosque of Aleppo. Following...
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    Umayyad Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأموي, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus...
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    announcements of a religious or political nature. The minbar was manufactured in Aleppo and, once finished, was placed in the Great Mosque of Aleppo until it...
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  • of the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya Great Mosque of Aleppo, the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria Great Mosque of...
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  • Walls of Ávila in Spain begins. About 1090–1094 – Minaret of Great Mosque of Aleppo in Syria built (destroyed 2013). 1090 – Javeri temple is built in Khajuraho...
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    The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: مَعْرَكَةُ حَلَبَ, romanized: Maʿrakat Ḥalab) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, between...
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    Holiest sites in Shia Islam (category Mosques in Iraq)
    contains the graves of Abraham and some of his family Al-Nabi Yusha' in Upper Galilee, Israel - Tomb of Joshua Great Mosque of Aleppo in Aleppo, Syria - entombs...
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    Zechariah in Islam (category Hebrew Bible prophets of the Quran)
    disappointed in my prayer to You, my Lord! 19:5 And I am concerned about ˹the faith of˺ my relatives after me, since my wife is barren. So grant me, by Your grace...
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  • while tying the women with ropes in Aleppo's Great mosque after the children and women tried to take refuge in the mosque. Tatar soldiers openly raped gentlewomen...
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  • a list of mosques in Aleppo from different dynastic periods. Al-Tuteh mosque, (Al-Atras mosque), 637 AD Al-Nuqtah Mosque Great Mosque of Aleppo, 716 AD...
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  • Some of the connections she makes don't convince – a link she tries to make between Big Ben and the minaret of the Great Mosque in Aleppo is a bit of a stretch...
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    Mosque of Aleppo; the agora of the Hellenistic period, which later became the garden for the Cathedral of Saint Helena[citation needed] The mosque of Job in...
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    The Citadel of Aleppo (Arabic: قلعة حلب, romanized: Qalʿat Ḥalab) is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern...
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    Lists of mosques cover mosques, places of worship for Muslims. The lists include the most famous, largest and oldest mosques, and mosques mentioned in...
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    City of Aleppo (World Heritage Site) Al-Madina Souq in Aleppo, world's largest covered historic market, destroyed and burnt by fire. Great Mosque of Aleppo...
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    Hezzab, Salka) Great Mosque of Aleppo Islam in Algeria History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes List of cultural assets of Algeria Waldie's...
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  • mosques in the world can refer to the oldest, surviving building or to the oldest mosque congregation. There is also a distinction between old mosque...
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    They mainly live in the urban centres and countryside of the following six governorates: the Aleppo Governorate, the Damascus Governorate, the Homs Governorate...
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    Holiest sites in Sunni Islam (category Mosques in Iraq)
    governor of the Damascus Eyalet, Ahmad Pasha ibn Ridwan. Great Mosque of Aleppo in Aleppo, Syria - contains the remains of Prophet Zechariah, father of John...
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    like Damascus and Aleppo (e.g. Adiliya Madrasa in Damascus and Firdaws Madrasa in Aleppo). Courtyard façade of the Great Mosque of Diyarbakir, founded...
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    given name, the Arabic form of Zechariah which is of Hebrew origin, meaning "God/YHWH has remembered". Zakariya, the father of John the Baptist (Yahya) Zakariyya...
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  • States Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City Great Mosque of Aleppo (13th century) Central Synagogue of Aleppo Siege of Aleppo (disambiguation)...
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  • the Great Mosque of Aleppo and the Al-Madina Souq, while others such as Krak des Chevaliers were damaged. Khusruwiyah Mosque (Husrev Mosque). The Islamic...
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    Syria (redirect from Subdivisions of Syria)
    Druze, and Yazidis. The capital and largest city is Damascus, followed by Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, Hama, Deirezor, and Raqqa. Arabs are the largest ethnic...
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  • A grand mosque, or congregational mosque, Friday mosque, great mosque or jama masjid, is a type of mosque which is the main mosque of a certain area that...
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    father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin...
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    of the Ottoman Empire, the Alawites would again experience significant persecution; especially in Aleppo when a massacre occurred in the Great Mosque...
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