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 ...

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday ... incident occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque as a result of a stampede ...

DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - 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 ...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle ... periods of its history – one of the most spectacular is the 8th-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built ...

DAMASCUS — An Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment building in a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital on ...

is a historical hospital and medical school in Damascus Old City, southwest of the Great Umayyad Mosque It was built in two phases. The Zangid sultan Nur al-Din Zangi erected the main building in ...

“Bashar al-Assad spread sectarianism, and today our country belongs to us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.

Construction commenced in AD 785, guided by Abd al-Rahman I’s singular vision to create a mosque similar to those in Damascus and Baghdad. After the fall of Al-Andalus and the Spanish ...