1. Great Mosque of
Damascus
Casey Vanneste
Great Mosque of Damascus (Syria),
706-715
Umayyads/2nd Caliphate/
preexisting Roman square towers/
minarets

2. The city of Damascus

3. History
 Great Mosque of
Damascus (Syria), 706-715
Umayyads/2nd Caliphate/
preexisting Roman square
towers/ minarets

4.  The interior walls of Great
Mosque of Damascus have stone
mosaics that depict crowns,
fantastic plants, realistic trees, and
even empty towns.
 This is thought to represent
Paradise for the faithful Muslim.
 Both the Dome of the Rock in
Jerusalem and The Great Mosque
of Damascus used the Syrian cut-
stone technique of building and
popularized the use of the dome.

5. The minaret in the
southeastern
corner is called
the Minaret of
Jesus, because
of a Muslim
tradition that this
is where Jesus
will appear on the

6. Prayer room
http://www.3dmekanlar.com/en/umayyad-
mosque.html

7. Interior

8. Inside
the
Mosque
 small shrines
 John the Baptist (Prophet Yahia to the Muslims)
 Zechariah
 the son of Imam Ali (the son in law of Muhammad
"p.b.a.h").
 the father of St. John the Baptist or the head of
Hussein
 Adjacent to the prayer hall, along the eastern wall
of the courtyard, is the entrance to a finely tiled
shrine chamber.
The place where the head of
Husayn was kept on display by
Yazīd.

9. Left: Main entrance to the prayer
hall of the Great Mosque of
Damascus
Below: Spandrel mosaic from the
Great Mosque of Damascus