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Omar Sanadiki, Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Aleppo in 2016, during the Syrian Civil War, Reuters, 13 December 2016

Both the Great Mosque of Aleppo and the Great Mosque of Damascus were built in the same year: 715 CE. The structure in Damascus has been largely…

Tags: Aleppo, Islam, Mosque, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Umayyad

SEIER+SEIER, Interior of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Flickr, April 2, 2004

An interior shot of the Great Mosque of Damascus (or Umayyad Mosque), in modern-day Syria, with the Shrine of St. John the Baptist visible in the…

Tags: Damascus, Islam, Mosque, Shrine, St. John the Baptist, Syria, Umayyad