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  • Tekkiye Mosque

    Tekkiye Mosque or Sultan Selim Mosque is a historic mosque complex located in Damascus, Syria. It was commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent 1554 AD, and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. The Tekkiye Mosque was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 as part of Ancient City of Damascus.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Ancient City of Damascus.
    World Heritage Site
    Tekkiye Mosque
    by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
    Tekkiye Mosque
    by Zain Almasri, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
    Tekkiye Mosque
    by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 689 m

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    Tekkiye Mosque

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1979

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    Mosques and Islamic Buildings

    Location

    Syria

    Damascus Governorate

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    16th Century AD

    Islamic

    Islamic

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    Islamic Monuments

     

     

     

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