INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -To understand the importance of the Great Mosque of Damascus, built by the Umayyad caliph, al-Walid II between 708 and 715 C.E., we need to look into the recesses of time.

Detailed explanation-2: -The city otherwise lacked sufficient free space for a large congregational mosque. The sixth Umayyad caliph, al-Walid I (r. 705–715), resolved to construct such a mosque on the site of the cathedral in 706. Al-Walid personally supervised the project and had most of the cathedral, including the musalla, demolished.

Detailed explanation-3: -To these I wanted to add a fifth: this mosque."1 The construction of the Great Mosque (or Friday Mosque) of Damascus was a means of establishing the permanence of the Umayyad rule, a significant gesture in a city that had been under Persian rule from 612–628 and then Arab rule from 635–661.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, is located in Damascus, Syria and is notably one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Built between 705 and 715 C.E. by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I, the mosque was and is primarily used for worship.