{"id":156,"date":"2022-10-25T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:35:38","slug":"omayyad-mosque","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/omayyad-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"OMAYYAD MOSQUE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Great Mosque stands at the heart of the Old city at the end of Souq alHamidiyeh. It was built by the Omayyad Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdul Malek in 705<br>A.D. when Damascus was the capital of the Arab Islamic Empire.<br>A prominent feature of it are the three minarets built in different styles; the<br>upper parts of which were renovated during the Ayoubite , Mamluk , and<br>Ottoman eras. The mosque has a large prayer hall and an enormous courtyard.<br>The interior walls are covered with mosaic panels, made of colored and gilded<br>glass, portraying scenes from nature. The dome is greyich-blue, celebrated for its<br>magnificence. The prayer hall contains domed shrine venerated by both<br>Christians and Muslims, the tomb of St. John the Baptist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omayyad-mosque.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omayyad-mosque.jpg 471w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omayyad-mosque-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omayyad-mosque-140x150.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Great Mosque stands at the heart of the Old city at the end of Souq alHamidiyeh. It was built by the Omayyad Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdul Malek in 705A.D. when Damascus was the capital of the Arab Islamic Empire.A prominent feature of it are the three minarets built in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/omayyad-mosque\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayatours.net\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}