The 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...

temple dedicated to Jupiter Temple of Jupiter, Damascus, modern Syria Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens; dedicated to Zeus, the Greek equivalent of Jupiter...

other Temples of Mount Hermon Burqush Temple of Bel, Palmyra Temple of Jupiter, Damascus, Syria Temple of Zeus Hypsistos, Al-Dumayr Funerary Temple, Palmyra...

expand the temple under the direction of Damascus-born architect Apollodorus, who created and executed the new design. The new Temple of Jupiter became the...

of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of...

sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC. In the Islamic era, Damascus was the seat of the...

of Bosra Temple of Jupiter, Damascus One of the Dead Cities The Great Mosque of Damascus from the Umayyad era Temple of Bel in Palmyra The Citadel of...

by the emirs of Damascus to get at the metal. As late as the 16th century, the Temple of Jupiter still held 27 standing columns out of an original 58;...

Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/ də-MAS-kəs, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest...

celestial gods whose temple-buildings (aedes) should be built open to the sky. As a sky god, he became identified with Jupiter, as indicated by an inscription...

In the first century the Temples started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous ""Monoliths". The Temple of Jupiter in Heliopolis (in a complex...

Roman route to the Temple of Jupiter around 1780 during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I, and later extended during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II...

god, traditionally said to have been built by Romulus: this was the Temple of Jupiter Feretrius, which was restored by Augustus. The god here had no image...

Temple of Jupiter built by the Romans. 613 – Sasanian captured Damascus during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 634 – Arab conquest of Damascus under...

(Yahya), which was earlier, a Roman Pagan temple of Jupiter. Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Homs; initially a pagan temple for the sun god ("El-Gabal"), then converted...

The month of Martius was named for the god Mars, whose "birthday" was celebrated on the 1st, but the Ides of each month were sacred to Jupiter, the Romans'...

and the Yabroud temple, which was once Jupiter Yabroudis's temple but later became "Konstantin and Helena Cathedral". Yabroud is home of the oldest church...

the tale of the Raptus, also known as "The Abduction of Europa" and "The Seduction of Europa", substituting the god Jupiter for Zeus. The myth of Europa...

was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built overlapping the site of the former second Jewish temple, the Temple Mount. Hadrian had...

is a countryside area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim. Ghouta is an Arabic term (ghuta)...

later, Abu Ubaida himself moved towards Heliopolis, where the great Temple of Jupiter stood. In May 636, Heliopolis surrendered to the Muslims after little...

dating to the PPNB, consisting of three temples: Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus. On a nearby hill, they built a fourth temple dedicated to Mercury. Berytus...

was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, whom the Romans believed had vanquished and replaced the God of the Jews. A temple to Jupiter was built in the city...

in Aram-Damascus. The fate of this temple is remarkable, under the Roman Empire it was rebuilt as a Temple of Jupiter, during Byzantine times it was turned...

the gate is where the Roman Temple of Jupiter and the Theatre of Herod the Great (modern Bayt al-Aqqad), once stood. Damascus was conquered by Muslims In...

Pantheion, "[temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary...

list of officially named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. As of 2017, there is a total of 5...

needed]. The Jupiter temple is a six Corinthian columns of the great temple, and it is a 22 meters high column built on a podium. In this Temple, only six...

advise me to build a place of worship?" Ka‘b indicated the Temple Rock, now a gigantic heap of ruins from the temple of Jupiter. The Jews, Ka‘b explained...

and from their customs, but let our temple which at present hath no name at all, be named the Temple of Jupiter Hellenius. — Josephus 12:5 In the letter...