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List of mosques in Syria
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This is a list of mosques in Syria.
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Name | Images | City | Year (CE) | Group | Remarks |
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al-Shuaibiyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 637 | Believed to be one of the oldest mosques in the Levant[1] | |
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque | Damascus | 682 | TS | Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali[2] | |
Great Mosque of Aleppo | ![]() |
Aleppo | 715 | Su | Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist. The mosque and its minaret were partially destroyed in April 2013, during the Syrian Civil War[3] |
Umayyad Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | 715 | Su | National mosque. Shrine of John the Baptist (Yahya)[4] |
Al-Omari Mosque | ![]() |
Bosra | 721 | Substantially destroyed during the Syrian civil war, c. 2012[5] | |
Great Mosque of Raqqa | Raqqa | 772 | In partial ruins since c. 2010s | ||
Great Mosque of Hama | ![]() |
Hama | 8th century | Destroyed during the 1982 Hama massacre and reconstructed in 2001[6] | |
al-Nuqtah Mosque | Aleppo | 944 | Sh | [7] | |
Great Mosque of al-Nuri | ![]() |
Homs | 1129 | Su | |
Nur al-Din Mosque | ![]() |
Hama | 1172 | Su | |
Al-Qaiqan Mosque | Aleppo | 12th century | |||
Great Mosque of Maarat al-Numan | ![]() |
Maarat al-Numan | 12th century | Destroyed during the 2016 Battle of Maarat al-Numan[8] | |
Hanabila Mosque | Damascus | 1210 | Believed to be a miniature version of the Umayyad Mosque[9] | ||
Aqsab Mosque | Damascus | 1234 | Su | ||
Great Mosque of Sarmin | Sarmin | 1259 | Significantly damaged in October 2023, during the Syrian civil war[10][11] | ||
Yalbugha Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | 1264 | Repurposed for profane use in the 19th century; demolished in 1974; rebuilt on the same location in 2014[12] | |
Mahmandar Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1303 | Minaret was damaged in 2012, during the Battle of Aleppo[13] | |
Mosque of Prophet Huri | ![]() |
Cyrrhus | 1314 | Su | Established during the Mamluk period around a historic Roman-period hexagonal tower tomb. Damaged in conflicts in 2018 and restored in 2020 |
Altun Bogha Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1318 | [14] | |
Abu'l-Fida Mosque | Hama | 1327 | Mausoleum completed in 1327; the mosque during the Mamluk era[15] | ||
Al-Tawashi Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1348 | ||
Bahsita Mosque | Aleppo | 1350 | |||
Al-Sahibiyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1350 | [16] | |
al-Otrush Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1408 | [17] | |
Al-Saffahiyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1425 | [18] | |
Salimiyya Takiyya | ![]() |
Damascus | 1519 | Su | Sufi takiyya[19] |
Khusruwiyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1547 | The mosque was entirely destroyed during the Battle of Aleppo in August 2014[20] | |
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya | ![]() |
Damascus | 1559 | Su | Sufi takiyya[21] |
Al-Adiliyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1566 | The mosque was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of Aleppo in the summer of c. 2015 | |
Murad Pasha Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | 1568 | Su | Also known as the Naqshbandi Mosque after the Naqshbandi Sufi order.[22] |
Darwish Pasha Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | 1574 | Su | |
Behramiyah Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1583 | Ottoman style; rebuilt many times[23] | |
Sinan Pasha Mosque | Damascus | 1590 | Su | Named after Sinan Pasha[24] | |
Nabi Habeel Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | 1599 | Sh | Tomb of Abel, son of Prophet Adam |
Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque | ![]() |
Homs | 1912 | Su | Preserves the tomb of Khalid ibn al-Walid, one of the most prominent Sahaba |
Al-Atassi Mosque | ![]() |
Homs | 1913 | Founded by the Al-Atassi family; completed in the late Ottoman style[25] | |
Al-Salam Mosque | Homs | 1980 | |||
Tawhid Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1981 | ||
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque | Damascus | 1985 | TS | Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali[26] | |
Ar-Rahman Mosque | ![]() |
Aleppo | 1994 | ||
Uwais al-Qarni Mosque | ![]() |
Raqqa | 2003 | TS | Destroyed by the Islamic State on 31 May 2014[27] |
Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham | ![]() |
Jableh | 785 | Su | Contains a tomb dedicated to the Sufi mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham |
Al-Iman Mosque | ![]() |
Damascus | ? | In 2013, a suicide bomber killed at least 42 people and injured at least 84 others in the mosque[28] |
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Su | Sunni |
Sh | Shī‘ah |
TS | Twelver Shī‘ah |
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