Great Mosque of Aleppo

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The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جَامِع حَلَب ٱلْكَبِيْر, romanized: Jāmiʿ Ḥalab al-Kabīr), also known as the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: ٱلْجَامِع ٱلْأُمَوِي ٱلْكَبِيْر فِي حَلَب, romanized: Al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī al-Kabīr fī Ḥalab), is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria, first built under the Umayyad Caliphate. The mosque is located in the al-Jalloum district of the Ancient City of Aleppo, a World Heritage Site, near the entrance to al-Madina Souq. The mosque was purportedly home to the remains of Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist. It was built in the beginning of the 8th century CE during the reign of the Umayyad caliph Sulayman (r. 715–717), but the current building dates from the 11th through 14th centuries.

The minaret in the mosque, built in 1090, was destroyed during fighting in the Syrian civil war in April 2013. Between 2012 and 2016, the structure of the mosque sustained significant damage, including the collapse of parts of its walls, the burning of its prayer hall, and the loss of priceless historical artefacts. Work commenced in c. 2017 to restore the mosque and its minaret to its original 11th-century style. The mosque was reopened for the month of Ramadan only in March 2025; and was fully reopened in October 2026 after 13 years of closure.

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