Jubayr spent a month in Damascus, lodging in the Dar al-Hadith ("house of religious tradition") just west of the great ... all painted in gold with colourful stone mosaics. The Umayyad mosque ...

DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA) - The Great ... mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in the world. The construction of the Umayyad Mosque ...

Accompanied by Syria's leading Muslim clerics, the 81-year-old pope entered Sunday the landmark Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which contains the supposed tomb of St. John the Baptist.

"Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq announced that the final toll from the unfortunate stampede that occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque and its surroundings is four dead ...

Muslim worshippers thronged the landmark Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus on Friday for the ... we started building this country and building it hand in hand," he told AFP.

Syrians chant slogans and wave the new Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad Mosque ... to Damascus, appeared in a video message in which he congratulated “the great ...