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The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جَامِع حَلَب ٱلْكَبِيْر, romanized: Jāmiʿ Ḥalab al-Kabīr) is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria. It is located in al-Jalloum district of the Ancient City of Aleppo , a World Heritage Site , near the entrance to Al-Madina Souq .
The 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 capital of Syria, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Its religious importance stems from the eschatological reports concerning the mosque and historic ...
Al-Shuaibiyah Mosque: Aleppo Syria: 637: Ibrahimi Mosque: Hebron Palestine: 637 [116] Great Mosque of Aleppo: Aleppo Syria: 715: Umayyad Mosque: Damascus Syria: 715: Sunni Fourth holiest site and the national mosque of Syria. It was originally built after the Muslim conquest of the city in 634. The current structure dates to 715. White Mosque ...
The spot where the mosque now stands was a temple of Hadad in the Aramean era. The site was later a temple of Jupiter in the Roman era, then a Christian church dedicated to John the Baptist in the Byzantine era, before finally becoming a mosque. Date: 12 May 2010, 08:40: Source: Umayyad Mosque, Damascus: Detail. Author: Jan Smith from Brisbane ...
Images City Year Denomination Remarks Great Mosque of Aleppo: Aleppo: 715 Sunni Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist: Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque: Damascus: 682 Shi'ah: Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali: Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque: Damascus: 1985 Shi‘ah Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali: Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque ...
The Umayyad Mosque, located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. It is considered by some Muslims to be the fourth-holiest place in Islam. Русский: Мечеть Омейядов, Большая мечеть Дамаска, Сирия, одна из крупнейших и старейших ...
It was opened in 1994 and features a combined style of the early Umayyad architecture and modern mosques. It has a large central dome surrounded with 2 high and 4 shorter rectangular minarets. The external walls of the mosque are decorated with stones in the form of traditional Quran pages, inscribed with some verses from the Ar-Rahman sura. [1]
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus; built on the site of a Christian basilica dedicated to John the Baptist , 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 into a church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist [ citation needed ]