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Umayyad Mosque
The Umayyad Mosque, or Great Mosque of Damascus, was built by the caliph al-Walid I between 705 and 715 on the site of a Christian church of St John the Baptist, which had replaced a Roman temple of Jupiter. Its vast courtyard, prayer hall and mosaics of landscapes and buildings, made with Byzantine craftsmen, set a model for later congregational mosques, and it still holds a shrine said to contain the head of John the Baptist.
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