List of mosques in Damascus

Damascus is home to many Mosques, each drawing from various periods of its history such as the Umayyad Caliphate (of which Damascus was the seat), and during the Abbasid Caliphate, Fatimid, Zengid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman periods and finally the modern Syrian Arab Republic.

List of mosques

NameImagesYear (CE) Period NeighborhoodRemarks
Umayyad Mosque 715 Umayyad Old City The largest in Damascus and considered to be the national mosque of Syria
Fulus Mosque 11th century Fatimid Al-Midan
Nur al-Din Madrasa and Mosque 1167 Zengid Old City Originally a madrasa with a later mausoleum
Farrukh Shah Madrasa and Mosque 1183 Ayyubid Muhajreen Originally a madrasa with a later mausoleum
Al-Shamiyah Madrasa and Mosque 1190 Ayyubid Sarouja Originally a madrasa
Hanabila Mosque 1210 Ayyubid Al-Salihiyah Believed to be a miniature version of the Umayyad Mosque,[1] and the first congregational mosque outside the old city
Bab Musalla Mosque 1210 Ayyubid Al-Shaghour
Al-Jisr Al-Abyad Mosque 1214 Ayyubid Al-Salihiyah
Al-Rukniya Madrasa and Mosque 1224 Ayyubid Rukn ad-Din
Jarrah Mosque 1233 Ayyubid Al-Shaghour
Aqsab Mosque (Al-Sadat Mosque) 1234 Ayyubid Sarouja
Al-Tawba Mosque 1235 Ayyubid Sarouja
Al-Atabikiyya Madrasa and Mosque 1242 Ayyubid Al-Salihiyah
Al-Jadid Mosque 1255 Ayyubid Al-Salihiyah
Al-Murshidiyya Madrasa and Mosque 1256 Ayyubid Al-Salihiyah
Al-Badra'iyya Mosque 1256 Ayyubid Old City
Yalbugha Mosque 1264 Mamluk Sarouja Repurposed for profane use in the 19th century; demolished in 1974; rebuilt on the same location in 2014[2]
Al-Daqqaq Mosque (Al-Karimi Mosque) 1318 Mamluk Al-Midan
Tankiz Mosque 1318 Mamluk Qanawat Rebuilt in 1951
Al-Sanjaqdar Mosque 1348 Mamluk Qanawat
Al-Ajami Mosque 1348 Mamluk Al-Shaghour
Manjak Mosque 1370 Mamluk Al-Midan
Al-Tawusiyya Mosque 1382 Mamluk Sarouja
Al-Taynabiyya Mosque 1394 Mamluk Al-Midan
Al-Tawrizi Mosque (Al-Teirouzi Mosque) 1422 Mamluk Qanawat
Al-Ward Mosque 1426 Mamluk Sarouja
Sidi Hisham ibn Ammar Mosque 1427 Mamluk Old City
Al-Qal'i (Al-Qalai) Mosque 1431 Mamluk Old City
Al-Shadhbakiya Madrasa and Mosque 1453 Mamluk Qanawat
Al-Muallaq Mosque 1458 Mamluk Sarouja
Al-Sabuniyya Madrasa and Mosque 1464 Mamluk Al-Shaghour
Qutb Al-Din Al-Khudairi Mosque 1473 Mamluk Old City
Al-Sibaiyah Madrasa and Mosque 1515 Mamluk Qanawat
Ibn Arabi Mosque (Salimiyya Takiyya) 1519 Ottoman Al-Salihiyah A Mosque and a takiyya[3]
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya 1559 Ottoman Qanawat A Mosque and a takiyya[4]
Al-Naqshabandi Mosque 1568 Ottoman Al-Shaghour Also known as the Murad Pasha Mosque after the commissioner of the mosque.[5]
Darwish Pasha Mosque 1574 Ottoman Qanawat
Al-Yaghushiyya Mosque 1587 Ottoman Old City
Sinan Pasha Mosque 1590 Ottoman Old City Named after Sinan Pasha[6]
Al-Safarjalani Mosque (Al-Qari Mosque) 1699 Ottoman Old City
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi Mosque 1733 Ottoman Al-Salihiyah
Al-Fathiyah Madrasa and Mosque 1743 Ottoman Old City
Al-Iman Mosque 1970 Modern Al-Salihiyah
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque 1985 Modern Old City Twelver Shiʿa shrine dedicated to Ruqayya Twelver Shiʿa shrine dedicated to Ruqayya (according to Twelver Shi'ism)[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jami' al-Hanabila". ArchNet.org. n.d. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "Jami' Yalbugha". ArchNet.org. n.d.
  3. ↑ Al-Rihawi, Abd al-Qadir; Ouéchek, Émilie E. (1975). "Les deux takiyya de Damas". Bulletin d'études orientales (in French). 28: 224 [8].
  4. ↑ Al-Rihawi, Abd al-Qadir; Ouéchek, Émilie E. (1975). "Les deux takiyya de Damas". Bulletin d'études orientales (in French). 28. JSTOR 41604595.
  5. ↑ Kafescioǧlu, Çiǧdem (1999). ""In The Image of Rūm": Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Aleppo and Damascus". Muqarnas. 16. BRILL: 70–96. doi:10.2307/1523266. JSTOR 1523266.
  6. ↑ "Jami' al-Sinaniyya, Damascus, Syria". ArchNet.org. n.d. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  7. ↑ "Syria". Mailviruskid.tripod.com. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
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