Damascus is home to many Mosques, each drawing from various periods of its history such as the Umayyad Caliphate (of which Damascus was the seat), Abbasid...

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, the...

there are more than 200 mosques in Damascus, the most well-known being the Umayyad Mosque. Christians represent about 10%–15% of the population.[citation...

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an early Ayyubid-era mosque in Damascus, Syria. List of mosques in Damascus Muzaffari Mosque Archnet Digital Library. 33°31′52.5″N 36°17′21.5″E / 33...

of prayer such as prayer halls (musala), courtyards (ṣaḥn) and porticoes (riwāq). All the mosques in this list are congregational mosques – a type of...

the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest mosques in the world and also one of the oldest sites of continuous prayer since the rise of Islam. A...

distinction between old mosque buildings in continuous use as mosques and others no longer used as mosques. In terms of congregations, there are early established...

Within the Levant, both the Umayyad Mosque in the city of Damascus and the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron have held interchangeable significance as the...

into mosques. Several such mosques in the areas of former Muslim rule have since been reconverted or have become museums, including the Parthenon in Greece...

Jewish Quarter of Damascus (Arabic: حارة اليهود, DMG Ḥārat al-Yahūd) is the quarter in the southeastern part of the Old City of Damascus inhabited mainly...

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Temple of Jupiter in Damascus was built by the Romans, beginning during the rule of Augustus and completed during the rule of Constantius II. Damascus was...

Lists of mosques cover mosques, places of worship for Muslims. The lists include the most famous, largest and oldest mosques, and mosques mentioned in the...

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Quran. The basic plan of the building has been adopted in the building of other mosques throughout the world. The original mosque was built by Muhammad...

al-Walid building the great mosques of Damascus and Medina, with the 13th-century historians adding the al-Aqsa Mosque to his roster of great building works...

Endowment doubled the area of the mosque. Islam portal Egypt portal Lists of mosques List of mosques in Africa List of mosques in Egypt "Balaghatun Nisa"...

form of some of the earliest mosques built from the very beginning of Islam. Some of its features had precedents in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, which...

Ancient City of Damascus, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. The location of the current citadel was first fortified in 1076 by the...

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by Abdul Hamid II in Marjeh Square of Damascus, Syria bears a replica statue of the Yıldız Mosque on top. On 4 August 2017, the mosque was reopened by President...

mosaics are prominently featured in both the Dome of the Rock and the Great Mosque of Damascus, but the lack of human figures in their imagery was a new trait...

20 March 2010: This great mosque, the 'brilliant one'...is one of the principal mosques of present-day Cairo. This seat of learning...regained all its...

Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi (Arabic: مسجد قاني باي المحمدي) is one of the historical mosques in Cairo, Egypt, built in 1413 CE during the Burji dynasty...

The Capture of Damascus occurred on 1 October 1918 after the capture of Haifa and the victory at the Battle of Samakh which opened the way for the pursuit...

Malik-Shah I over an older mosque. According to some, it is the fifth holiest site in Islam after the Great Mosque of Damascus, which influenced its design...

architecture. Routledge. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9781134613663. Although the mosques of Damascus, Fustat and Medina had towers during the Umayyad period it is now...

10 churches in Damascus into mosques. The process of turning churches into mosques were especially intensive in the villages where most of the inhabitants...

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