The Umayyad mosque was one of Aleppo's most famous mosques and also one of its most beautiful. UNESCO described it as "one of the most beautiful mosques in the Muslim world." But now, parts of the ...

It's a city inhabited for 11,000 years and has seen empires come and go, including the Greeks, Romans and Ottomans.

Aleppo, Syria's second city ... Just to the west of the citadel, the Great or Umayyad Mosque - built between the 8th and 13th centuries - has been left almost in ruins. Its 45m (150ft) 11th ...

Studio Cho, Chen-Yu Chiu and his students from Bilkent University have completed the Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World ...

Many have talked about the number one listed tourist attraction in the city - the Damascus Umayyad Mosque. One said: “The Umayyad Mosque is considered a historical architecture masterpiece that ...

A boy walks in front of a former school and mosque in the Sukkari neighborhood of south Aleppo. The mosque is being rebuilt while most of the surrounding buildings remain in ruins. This story ...

In fully-illustrated in-depth articles from BBC Magazine, presenter Kanishk Tharoor and producer Maryam Maruf explore the subjects of the Museum of Lost Objects. One year ago a man took a ...

The cat man of Aleppo, Mohammad Aljaleel, touched the hearts of millions when his sanctuary featured in a BBC video in 2016 (above). He had to leave the city when it fell to Syrian government ...

ALEPPO /Syria/, September 12. /TASS/. The Ahmat-Hajji Kadyrov Regional Public Foundation has donated $14 million for rebuilding the Great Mosque of Aleppo, destroyed in April 2013, the Mufti of ...

Didsbury Mosque said the BBC investigation was "misleading ... The sermon was held in December 2016 when the Syrian city of Aleppo had been caught in a brutal four-year deadlock.

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In the early sixties, Syrian artists made a monument of the Damascene Sword in the Umayyad Square in central Damascus as a symbol of the power of the city. The monument had two large contrasting ...