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Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient Aramaean temple dedicated to the god Hadad. With Hellenization the temple was dedicated to Zeus and in the first century BC the Romans transformation it into the Temple of Jupiter Damascenus. In 391 Emperor...
Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid
I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient
Aramaean temple dedicated to the god Hadad. With Hellenization the temple was dedicated to Zeus
and in the first century BC the Romans transformation it into the Temple of Jupiter Damascenus.
In 391 Emperor...
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