Jubayr spent a month in Damascus, lodging in the Dar al-Hadith ("house of religious tradition") just west of the great Umayyad mosque. This institution no longer exists and in fact much of the ...

Damascus, SANA-The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus is considered the fourth most famous Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in ...

Criterion (i): Damascus testifies to the unique aesthetic achievement of the civilizations which created it. The Great Mosque is a masterpiece of Umayyad architecture, which together with other major ...

Arcade leading from the west to the Great Mosque of Damascus, 2010 (photo by Alain ... and compounded by the paucity of diagrams. A few carefully-drawn schematic renderings of the mosque would ...

A tiny shrine in Damascus holds a casket that supposedly contains the head of John the Baptist. It is surrounded by one of the great wonders of the Muslim world -- the Grand Mosque of Damascus ...

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, is one of the oldest and largest mosques in the world, located in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It is situated at the heart ...

One of those edifices was the Great Umayyad Mosque with its three minarets that stand as a historical and archeological witnesses which rise up in the sky of Damascus to become unique models all ...

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, is one of the oldest and largest mosques in the world, located in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It is situated at the ...