Places
Search sacred sites, historic landmarks, schools, bookstores, and resting places across Syria.
13 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-Khanqah Mosque
مسجد الخانقاه
Former Sufi khanqah of Hama converted into a mosque, its lodge rooms surrounding the old courtyard.
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.
Citadel of Hama
قلعة حماة
Tell rising above the Orontes bearing the layered remains of Hama's ancient citadel — occupied from the Neolithic through the Ottoman age.
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.
Norias of Hama (Waterwheels)
نواعير حماة
The great wooden waterwheels of Hama, turning on the Orontes since the Middle Ages to lift water into stone aqueducts; seventeen survive, groaning day and night.
Tomb of Abu al-Fida
قبر أبي الفداء
Tomb of Abu al-Fida (1273–1331), Ayyubid prince of Hama, historian, and geographer whose universal chronicle and 'Survey of the Countries' were read in Europe for centuries.
Tomb of Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi
قبر أبو الليث السمرقندي
Shrine attributed by Hama tradition to Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 983), the Central Asian Hanafi jurist and moralist known as 'Imam al-Huda', author of widely read works of ethics and exegesis.
Tombs of the Ayyubids
قبور الأيوبيين
Mausoleum of Hama's Ayyubid princes, the line of al-Muzaffar that ruled the city as a family appanage for nearly a century.