Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning ...

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a ...

The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus is considered the fourth most famous Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in the world.

Glass wall mosaic is a major feature of early Islamic architecture, surviving above all in the Umayyad monuments of the Dome of the Rock and the Great Mosque of Damascus. These grand mosaics inspired ...

Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning ...

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, is one of the oldest and largest mosques in the world, located in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It is situated at the heart ...

Collection Creator Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948 See more items in Ernst Herzfeld Papers Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.16: Photo File 16: "Syrian Architecture" / 4.16.1: Vol. 1 ...