al omer mosque, a photo from Beyrouth, West

::: al omer mosque by AKIN

(191)

Select Travel Date

Photographer's Note

The mosque's plan is arranged around an enclosed courtyard wrapped with a single arcade on the eastern and western sides and a double arcade on the southern side that leads to the prayer hall. The courtyard was originally used as a market and sleeping area for traveling caravans on the trade routes across Syria, especially on the annual pilgrimage roads to Mecca. The mosque has one of the earliest examples of an Umayyad square minaret, which was repeated in the other great Umayyad mosques in Damascus and Aleppo.

from wikipedia

Nobody ha contrassegnato questa nota come utile