Some Pictures
from Damascus (October 2010)
In
an old palace remodeled into a beautiful hotel.
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In
the souks of the old city.
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Khan As′ad Pasha, the largest former
caravanserai (khan) in the old city, constructed in 1752 under As′ad Pasha al-Azm, the Ottoman
governor of Damascus from 1743 to 1757. The square-shaped building consists of
80 rooms over two floors around a central courtyard originally surmounted by 9 (3x3)
domes. The central dome was destroyed by an earthquake and has not been
restored.
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The Omayad (a.k.a. Umayyad) Mosque.
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[Rightmost
photo: the mosque minaret seen from the temple of Jupiter built by the Romans
under the rule of Augustus.]
