{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Great Mosque at Damascus}[21st April 1991]

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‘Exceptional is the other great work of al-Walid, the Great Mosque at Damascus (706-14[ce]).* It was fitted into the temenos** of the pagan temple of Augustus which had meanwhile housed the Christian cathedral of St. John. This was demolished....’

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*{2048U~768[ce]}

**(Greek: temple, shrine etc)

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3]: 427

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