This is a list of mosques in Syria .
Name | Images | City | Year (CE) | Group | Remarks |
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al-Shuaibiyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 637 | Believed to be one of the oldest mosques in the Levant [1] | |
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque | | Damascus | 682 | TS | Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali [2] |
Great Mosque of Aleppo | ![]() | Aleppo | 715 | Su | Shrine of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist. The mosque and its minaret were partially destroyed in April 2013, during the Syrian Civil War [3] |
Umayyad Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | 715 | Su | National mosque. Shrine of John the Baptist (Yahya) [4] |
Al-Omari Mosque | ![]() | Bosra | 721 | Substantially destroyed during the Syrian civil war, c. 2012 [5] | |
Great Mosque of Raqqa | Raqqa | 772 | In partial ruins since c. 2010s | ||
Great Mosque of Hama | ![]() | Hama | 8th century | Destroyed during the 1982 Hama massacre and reconstructed in 2001 [6] | |
al-Nuqtah Mosque | | Aleppo | 944 | Sh | [7] |
Great Mosque of al-Nuri | ![]() | Homs | 1129 | Su | |
Nur al-Din Mosque | ![]() | Hama | 1172 | Su | |
Al-Qaiqan Mosque | | Aleppo | 12th century | ||
Great Mosque of Maarat al-Numan | ![]() | Maarat al-Numan | 12th century | Destroyed during the 2016 Battle of Maarat al-Numan [8] | |
Hanabila Mosque | Damascus | 1210 | Believed to be a miniature version of the Umayyad Mosque [9] | ||
Aqsab Mosque | Damascus | 1234 | Su | ||
Great Mosque of Sarmin | Sarmin | 1259 | Significantly damaged in October 2023, during the Syrian civil war [10] [11] | ||
Yalbugha Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | 1264 | Repurposed for profane use in the 19th century; demolished in 1974; rebuilt on the same location in 2014 [12] | |
Mahmandar Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1303 | Minaret was damaged in 2012, during the Battle of Aleppo [13] | |
Mosque of Prophet Huri | ![]() | Cyrrhus | 1314 | Su | Established during the Mamluk period around a historic Roman-period hexagonal tower tomb. Damaged in conflicts in 2018 and restored in 2020 |
Altun Bogha Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1318 | [14] | |
Abu'l-Fida Mosque | | Hama | 1327 | Mausoleum completed in 1327; the mosque during the Mamluk era [15] | |
Al-Tawashi Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1348 | ||
Bahsita Mosque | Aleppo | 1350 | |||
Al-Sahibiyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1350 | [16] | |
al-Otrush Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1408 | [17] | |
Al-Saffahiyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1425 | [18] | |
Salimiyya Takiyya | ![]() | Damascus | 1519 | Su | Sufi takiyya [19] |
Khusruwiyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1547 | The mosque was entirely destroyed during the Battle of Aleppo in August 2014 [20] | |
Sulaymaniyya Takiyya | ![]() | Damascus | 1559 | Su | Sufi takiyya [21] |
Al-Adiliyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1566 | The mosque was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of Aleppo in the summer of c. 2015 | |
Murad Pasha Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | 1568 | Su | Also known as the Naqshbandi Mosque after the Naqshbandi Sufi order. [22] |
Darwish Pasha Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | 1574 | Su | |
Behramiyah Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1583 | Ottoman style; rebuilt many times [23] | |
Sinan Pasha Mosque | | Damascus | 1590 | Su | Named after Sinan Pasha [24] |
Nabi Habeel Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | 1599 | Sh | Tomb of Abel, son of Prophet Adam |
Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque | ![]() | Homs | 1912 | Su | Preserves the tomb of Khalid ibn al-Walid, one of the most prominent Sahaba |
Al-Atassi Mosque | ![]() | Homs | 1913 | Founded by the Al-Atassi family; completed in the late Ottoman style [25] | |
Al-Salam Mosque | Homs | 1980 | |||
Tawhid Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1981 | ||
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque | | Damascus | 1985 | TS | Shrine of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of Husayn ibn Ali [26] |
Ar-Rahman Mosque | ![]() | Aleppo | 1994 | ||
Uwais al-Qarni Mosque | ![]() | Raqqa | 2003 | TS | Destroyed by the Islamic State on 31 May 2014 [27] |
Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham | ![]() | Jableh | 785 | Su | Contains a tomb dedicated to the Sufi mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham |
Al-Iman Mosque | ![]() | Damascus | ? | In 2013, a suicide bomber killed at least 42 people and injured at least 84 others in the mosque [28] |
Su | Sunni |
Sh | Shī‘ah |
TS | Twelver Shī‘ah |
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