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9 places
al-Ashbakiyya Mosque
مسجد الأشبكية
Mamluk mosque of Aleppo founded by the emir Ashbak, serving the quarters south of the citadel.
al-Firdaws Mosque
مسجد الفردوس
Mosque of the Firdaws ('Paradise') complex south of Aleppo's walls — the finest Ayyubid building in the city, raised in 1235 by the regent-queen Dayfa Khatun.
al-Halawiyya Mosque
جامع الحلوية
Mosque of the Halawiyya complex, occupying the nave of Aleppo's Byzantine cathedral of St Helena, converted in 1124.
al-Khayr / Musa al-Amiri Mosque
جامع الخير / موسى الأميري
Aleppo quarter mosque endowed by the notable Musa al-Amiri, part of the Ottoman-era fabric of the Jdeideh side.
al-Rahman Mosque
جامع الرحمن
One of Aleppo's principal modern congregational mosques, completed in the 1990s in the western districts.
al-Rawda Mosque (Aleppo)
جامع الروضة
Modern mosque of Aleppo's Shahba district, a major venue for Friday sermons and lessons.
al-Sahibiyya / Fustuq Mosque
جامع الصاحبية / فستق
Aleppo mosque known as al-Sahibiyya or the Fustuq ('pistachio') mosque after its endower's family trade.
al-Zaki Mosque
جامع الزكي
Aleppo neighbourhood mosque of the Zaki family, restored in the Ottoman period.
Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo
الجامع الأموي
Aleppo's Great Umayyad Mosque (8th c.), sister to the Damascus mosque, holding a shrine of Zechariah; its peerless Seljuq minaret of 1090 fell in the 2013 fighting and is being rebuilt.