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Umayyad Mosque
It is an impressive building that evokes three thousand years of history …
It was originally a temple dedicated to the God Hadad (9th century BC) until the Romans came and turned it into the Temple of Jupiter at the 1st century AD. During the Christian expansion, it became the church of St Baptist. When the Muslims conquered Damascus in 636, they divided the church in two. The oriental part was then used as a mosque while the Christians still performed their cult in the occidental part. In 705, the sixth Umayyad caliph, Al Walid, decided to turn it into one of the most beautiful mosques of the world. He enlarged it and redecorated it with marble and the famous and magnificent gilded mosaics.
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