The Great Umayyad MosqueAleppo العربية
The minaret from the courtyard, 2009
The minaret from the courtyard, 2009Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0

UNESCO World Heritage · Ancient City of Aleppo

Built to rival Damascus. Its minaret stood nine centuries, fell, and is going back up out of its own stone.

Founded by the Umayyads in 715 at the heart of Aleppo, beside its old cathedral. Its minaret stood for nine centuries and fell in April 2013 — and is going back up now, out of its own stone.

Founded
715 CE
The minaret
1090 CE
Height
45 m
World Heritage
1986
Danger list
2013

Every photograph here is dated, and the most recent predates the restoration. What you see on this site is the mosque as it was, not as it is today.

The crowning storey and its timber gallery, 2009
The crowning storey and its timber gallery, 2009Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0

1090 — 2013

The minaret

Forty-five metres that stood for nine centuries, and fell in April 2013. It is going back up now, out of its own stone.

Read the minaret's story

Before you go in

This is a working mosque, not an archaeological site. This page tells you what is expected of you, and what we do not yet know.

The mosque and its parts

A courtyard paved in black and white, a prayer hall of three aisles, and a shrine people have come to for nine centuries.

History

From 715 to today.