Places
Search sacred sites, historic landmarks, schools, bookstores, and resting places across Syria.
7 places
Abu al-Fida Mosque
جامع أبي الفداء
Riverside mosque built by Abu al-Fida in 1326, where the scholar-prince chose to be buried beside the Orontes he loved.
al-Izzi Mosque
مسجد العزي
Mamluk-era mosque of Hama endowed by the emir Izz al-Din, overlooking the Orontes quarter.
al-Madfan / Marwan Hadid Mosque
جامع المدفن / مروان حديد
Hama quarter mosque known as al-Madfan ('the burial place'), associated with the preacher Marwan Hadid (d. 1976).
al-Malaki al-Sharif Mosque
جامع الملكي الشريف
Hama mosque endowed by an Ayyubid prince bearing the royal title al-Malik al-Sharif.
al-Nuri Mosque
جامع النوري
Hama's al-Nuri Mosque, built by Nur al-Din al-Zanki in 1163 beside the Orontes, with a celebrated inscription of the founder over its portal.
Alwan Mosque
جامع علوان
Mosque of the Hama saint Shaykh Alwan al-Hamawi (d. 1530), Shafi'i scholar and Sufi poet whose tomb adjoins the prayer hall.
Great Mosque of Hama
الجامع الكبير
Hama's Great Mosque, an early Umayyad foundation on the site of a Roman temple and Byzantine church; destroyed in 1982 and painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone.