Tawhid Mosque ( ar, جَامِع التَّوْحِيد, Jāmiʿ at-Tawḥīd) is a contemporary
mosque in
Aleppo
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Khalil al-Hindawi
Khalil Al Hindawi (1906, Sidon – 1976, Aleppo) was a Syrian writer and poet.
Early life
Hindawi finished his studies at Al Makasid Islamic and Charitable Association in Saïda in 1924, and started teaching there when he was 17 years old. He ...
street, on the right bank of the
Queiq River.
It was opened in 1981 and features a combined style of the early
Islamic Abbasid architecture and modern mosques.
It has a large central dome surrounded with 4 smaller domes and 4 circular minarets. It is surrounded with two churches and a small park.
The mosque is notable for being built in a largely Christian-populated district of Aleppo.
References
Architecture in Syria
Mosques in Aleppo
20th-century mosques
Mosques completed in 1981
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