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Asma speaks of the Prayer Hall in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.
1893 – Prayer Hall rebuild by the Ottomans after a severe fire.
UMMAYAD MOSQUE – DAMASCUS
History of the mosque: 3000 B.C.E. – Aramean Temple to the god Hadad.
1st century C.E. (A.D.) – Temple to Jupiter
193-211 – Restored under Septimus Severus
379 C.E. (A.D.) – Church of St. John the Baptist under the Emperor Theodosius.
636 – South wall became mosque shared with Muslims after Damascus was taken by the Arabs.
708-715 – Ummayad Caliph Al-Walid built the Great Mosque in the present shape. The Christians were compensated with four permanent church sites elsewhere within the old city.
(Photos by Nancy Detweiler … short history of mosque taken from seminary travel seminar notes)
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