At a glance
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
In 87 AH al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik began to build the great mosque of Damascus. 2
al-Suyuti's account
al-Suyuti says that al-Walid also wrote to have the Prophet's mosque expanded and rebuilt. He relates from Ibn Abi Abla that al-Walid conquered India and al-Andalus and built the mosque of Damascus, and that he used to give bowls of silver to be divided among the readers of the mosque of Jerusalem. 2
The Gregorian date is derived. The details of the building need an additional source.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
- Occurred at
- Damascus
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back· al-Adil's seizure of Damascus· al-Ghazali's arrival in Damascus as an ascetic, in 488· The Sibayn Reclamation and Maslama's Estates
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 367
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.367
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Building of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/building-umayyad-mosque/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.