Sunday, December 18, 2005

Aleppo Ommayad Mosque

The Great Mosque of Aleppo is similar to the larger Ommayad Mosque in Damascus. It is also in the city centre and you can see the Aleppo Citadel in the background:
















The Great Mosque of Aleppo was built on the same lines as the Damascus Mosque which was built during the caliphate of Suleiman Ibn Abdelamalek. It was demolished several times, the first being when the emperor Nicephorus raided and destroyed the city of Aleppo, and the last one at the hands of Tamerlane. It was rebuilt during the Mameluke Era and the oldest part of it is its magnificent minaret, a square-shaped edifice built in 1090 A.D. It is also famous for its wooden pulpit made out of ebony and inlaid with ivory, fashioned during the reign of Sultan El Nasser Mohammed Ibn Qalawoun in the 8th A.H./14th A.D. century.
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