Monuments of Syria أوابد سورية
A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns
This itinerary described on pages 43 to 44 of Monuments of Syria (third edition, I B Tauris, London, 2009) takes the visitor through some of the busiest suqs of the old city with diversions to an interesting variety of religious establishments of the Ayyubid and Mamluk eras. The itinerary ends at the city’s western […]
plan Aleppo Great Mosque Jan 2016 The Great Mosque within the walled city of Aleppo is unjustly given second billing after the Great Mosque of the Umayyads in Damascus. While it lacks the richness of the associations with early Islam and the Roman predecessor on the Damascus site, the Aleppo Great Mosque has its own […]
Modern Latakia (a simplified version of the Arabic place name, al-Lādhiqiyyah) lies on the Syrian coast and serves today as one of the country’s principal ports.In terms of classical remains, the most important structures are the four-way gateway which lies preserved on the western edge of the main ‘downtown’ area and sections of colonnading of […]
Those who have fantasized for many years over the castles of the Crusaders need to prepare themselves for a different experience at the Citadel of Aleppo. Fortification techniques were developed on a unique plan in the Islamic world at the time of the Crusades. We see may examples in Syria of these ideas with a […]
