The Umayyad Mosque
About the place
- Country : Syria , Damascus
- Address : The Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria
- Category : Mosques
The Umayyad Mosque
Overview:
The Umayyad Mosque is located in the heart of the old city, bordered to the south by Al-Buzuriyah neighborhood, to the west by the Hamidiya market, to the east by Al Nawfara Coffee Shop, and from the northwest by the Azizia School and the tomb of Salah El-Din Al-Ayyubi.
The mosque is the most famous antiquities of Damascus at all. It was built by the sixth Umayyad caliph Al-Waleed bin Abdul-Malik in 705 AD, and it took ten years to complete it.
The mosque has four doors, three of which open onto the courtyard of the mosque.
Domes: The mosque has a large courtyard and three small buildings.
Minarets: The courtyard of the mosque is overlooking three minarets:
The northern minaret (the minaret of the bride; the oldest minaret in Islam).
Eastern minaret (Isa minaret).
The western minaret (the minaret of Qaitbay).
Resources:
marifa website
naseemalsham website
discover-syria website
arabic.irib website
weziwezi encyclopedia
andalusiat website
