Postcards depicting the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
Item
- Other Media
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Reverse of 'outside view' postcard -
Reverse of the 'inside view' postcard. -
Postcard showing the exterior view of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. -
Reverse of 'exterior' postcard. -
Postcard showing the inside view of the Umayyad Mosque, with the Preacher's Tribune -
Reverse of 'Preacher's Tribune' postcard - Description
- Four postcards showing inside and outside views of the Umayyad Mosque, or Great Mosque of Damascus. Commissioned by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd I, the mosque was completed in 715 CE and is one of the oldest in the world.
- Subject
- Islam
- Syria
- Architecture
- Spatial Coverage
- Syria
- Damascus
- Identifier
- EUL MS 215 Add 1
- Format
- Postcard
- Resource class
- Still Image
- Item sets
- Papers of Nabih and Adil Al-Azmah