Places
Search sacred sites, historic landmarks, schools, bookstores, and resting places across Syria.
19 places
al-Adiliyya al-Kubra School
المدرسة العادلية الكبرى
The great Adiliyya Madrasa (completed 1223), burial place of Sultan al-Adil and later seat of the Arab Academy of Damascus.
al-Firdaws Madrasa
مدرسة الفردوس
The Firdaws Madrasa (1235), Dayfa Khatun's serene Sufi college of stone courtyards and a famous interlaced-marble mihrab — often called the most beautiful building of Ayyubid Syria.
al-Halawiyya Madrasa
مدرسة الحلوية
The Halawiyya Madrasa, Aleppo's chief school of Hanafi law, built into the former cathedral of St Helena; Nur al-Din added its superb carved mihrab.
al-Hashimiyya Madrasa
المدرسة الهاشمية
Aleppo madrasa endowed by the Hashimi family for the teaching of law and Qur'an.
al-Jaqmaqiyya School
المدرسة الجقمقية
Mamluk madrasa of 1421 with a striking ablaq portal, now the Museum of Arabic Epigraphy.
al-Kamiliyya Madrasa
المدرسة الكاملية
Ayyubid-era madrasa of Aleppo named for its founder's royal patron al-Malik al-Kamil.
al-Nuriyya al-Kubra School
المدرسة النورية الكبرى
Nur al-Din's great law college (1167) and his burial place — its honeycomb muqarnas dome over the street is a landmark of medieval Damascus.
al-Nuriyya Hadith Institute for Women
معهد النورية للحديث للإناث
Women's institute of hadith studies attached to the Nuriyya tradition, training female scholars and teachers.
al-Sha'baniyya Madrasa
المدرسة الشعبانية
Ottoman madrasa of 1677 with a famous carved portal, for three centuries one of Aleppo's leading houses of learning and lately the school of Shaykh Abdullah Siraj al-Din.
al-Shumaysatiyya School
المدرسة الشميساطية
Medieval Sufi convent and school near the citadel, one of the earliest khanqahs of Damascus.
al-Tahdhib Institute of Islamic Education
معهد التهذيب والتعليم الشرعي
Private institute of Islamic education in Damascus offering structured study of Qur'an, law, and Arabic for young students.
al-Umariyya School
المدرسة العمرية
The Umariyya Madrasa, first school of al-Salihiyya, founded in the 12th century by the Banu Qudama refugees from Palestine; for centuries the Hanbali quarter's centre of learning.
al-Zahiriyya Library
المكتبة الظاهرية
The Zahiriyya — Baybars's tomb-madrasa turned national library (1880), whose manuscript hoard made it the memory of Damascus.
al-Zahiriyya Madrasa
المدرسة الظاهرية
Ayyubid madrasa founded by al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi, Saladin's son and ruler of Aleppo, who is buried there.
Bilad al-Sham University — Sayyida Ruqayya Complex
جامعة بلاد الشام مجمع السيدة رقية
Campus of Bilad al-Sham University for Shar'ia studies housed in the Sayyida Ruqayya complex, training imams and teachers.
Dar al-Hadith al-Adiliyya
دار الحديث العادلية
Ayyubid hadith college of the Adiliyya complex, endowed under Sultan al-Adil, Saladin's brother.
Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya
دار الحديث الأشرفية
Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya (1232), the Ayyubid academy where al-Nawawi taught; for centuries the most prestigious chair of hadith in Islam.
Dar al-Hadith al-Nuriyya
دار الحديث النورية
Hadith college founded by Nur al-Din al-Zanki — the first institution in Islam devoted solely to the Prophet's traditions.
Dar al-Ifta of Aleppo
دار الإفتاء بحلب
Seat of Aleppo's mufti, the office issuing the city's religious rulings since Ottoman times.