Although the Umayyads only ruled Damascus for 90 years, their great mosque remained unchanged for the next 1,300 years, with later dynasties only making minor alterations to it.

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 seven wonders of Islam in the world.

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday, Damascus ...

Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning ...

Thousands of Syrians gathered at a historic mosque in Damascus on Saturday, December 14, a day after the first Friday prayers were held since the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad government.

In Damascus, A View Of Syria's War Turned Inside Out. May 28, 2013 12:45 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. ... The Ummayyid Mosque in Damascus has been a mosque for around 1,400 years.

Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, was killed in a suicide bombing in the Eman Mosque, in Damascus, on March 21, 2013 ...

Jack is International Security and Terrorism Correspondent for Newsweek. The U.S.-backed forces battling the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria have liberated the Great Mosque of Raqqa ...

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: It has been a historic week in Syria, the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country. As rebels took hold of Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fled ...

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. Five children suffered fractures, ...

Syrians have converged on a landmark Damascus mosque waving opposition flags and chanting – a scene that would have been unimaginable under the Assad regime. Men, women and children gathered at ...

However, the magnificent Umayyad mosque still stands, revealing more about the city's history and its rulers. We went to Damascus, to trace Ibn Jubayr’s journey, and explore the areas he documented.