For Sufis and mystics, Damascus was particularly sacred. Mount Qasioun was believed to have been a retreat for prophets and saints. The city’s mosques and khanqahs (Sufi lodges) were filled with ...
DAMASCUS (AP) — Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in ...
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 ...
DAMASCUS — An Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment building in a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital on ...
“Bashar al-Assad spread sectarianism, and today our country belongs to us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.
DAMASCUS — Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital’s historic main mosque, its largest square and around the ...
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 ...