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 ...

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

In this view, creation is not separate from ... It was here that the Umayyads established the first great Islamic empire, making Damascus their capital in 661 CE. Even after the Abbasid caliphate ...

Umayyad Mosque ... a great centre of civilisation, or at least a living memento of past greatness. And a place of rare and unexpected pleasures. On my first night in Damascus I lost my goatee ...

The moment was captured on film and widely distributed, confirming Damascus had fallen. Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that ...

From Mosul's Great Mosque, al Baghdadi renames the group ... Ahmed al Sharaa speaks in a Damascus mosque after his fighters swept into the city. Pic: AP Ahmed al Sharaa speaks in a Damascus ...

Mammoth concrete apartment buildings line the main motorway running west out of Damascus ... the well-known Al Akram Mosque, and to Parfait, one of the capital’s top cake makers.

The pilgrimage was celebrated with great pomp and was a source of pride for Damascene Muslims, a testament to their city’s religious prestige. The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic ...

The centralized, top-down approach of the Syrian Arab Republic Government ... Iraq’s experience with IS’s destruction of Mosul and the rebuilding of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri provide valuable ...