Places
Search sacred sites, historic landmarks, schools, bookstores, and resting places across Syria.
21 places
al-Ashbakiyya Mosque
مسجد الأشبكية
Mamluk mosque of Aleppo founded by the emir Ashbak, serving the quarters south of the citadel.
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-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 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-Halawiyya Mosque
جامع الحلوية
Mosque of the Halawiyya complex, occupying the nave of Aleppo's Byzantine cathedral of St Helena, converted in 1124.
al-Hashimiyya Madrasa
المدرسة الهاشمية
Aleppo madrasa endowed by the Hashimi family for the teaching of law and Qur'an.
al-Kamiliyya Madrasa
المدرسة الكاملية
Ayyubid-era madrasa of Aleppo named for its founder's royal patron al-Malik al-Kamil.
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-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-Zahiriyya Madrasa
المدرسة الظاهرية
Ayyubid madrasa founded by al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi, Saladin's son and ruler of Aleppo, who is buried there.
al-Zaki Mosque
جامع الزكي
Aleppo neighbourhood mosque of the Zaki family, restored in the Ottoman period.
Aleppo National Museum
متحف حلب الوطني
Aleppo's National Museum, home to the basalt temple façade of Tell Halaf and treasures of Ebla, Mari, and Ugarit.
Citadel of Aleppo
قلعة حلب
The Citadel of Aleppo — a fortified palace-city on a glacis-clad mound dominating the skyline; largely the work of al-Zahir Ghazi (c. 1200) and one of the oldest and greatest castles on earth.
Dar al-Ifta of Aleppo
دار الإفتاء بحلب
Seat of Aleppo's mufti, the office issuing the city's religious rulings since Ottoman times.
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.
Khanqah al-Farafira
خانقاه الفرافرة
Ayyubid Sufi lodge of 1237 in Aleppo's Farafira quarter — the best-preserved khanqah in Syria, with cells, mosque, and courtyard fountain intact.
Shrine of Prophet al-Khidr
مقام نبي الله الخضر
Aleppo shrine dedicated to al-Khidr, the deathless 'green one' of Qur'anic tradition who guided Moses; a site of visitation for centuries.
Tomb of Abdullah Siraj al-Din
قبر عبد الله سراج الدين
Tomb of Abdullah Siraj al-Din (1923–2002), Aleppo's beloved hadith scholar and Sufi, author of devotional works on the Prophet read across the Muslim world; he taught at the Sha'baniyya for half a century.