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21-SEP-2008

Damascus Mosque al-Aqsab aka al-Zainabiye 4641.jpg

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This is the Mosque al-Aqsab, also called the Mosque al-Zainabiye, founded in 1301 and reconstructed in 1408 after the last Mongol invasion by Nasr al-Din Muhammad, son of Manjak. This was once the site of a Byzantine church.

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