The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as ...
It’s a journey along which he has had plenty of time to plan where and how he would ... Islamist rebel chose Damascus’s venerated Umayyad Mosque – not a TV studio, nor newly absented ...