Barada mosaic of the eastern wall of the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus (ca. 706-15)

First imperial mosque built by Caliph al-Walid I (705-15), the son of Abd al-Malik. A detail of the Barada mosaic of the eastern wall of the mosque courtyard.

 

Format

Photograph

 

Credit

Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.

 

MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin

4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002

 

MIT Course Instructor

Rabbat, Nasser O.

 

MIT Department

Architecture

 

License

http://ocw.mit.edu/terms

 

Publisher

MIT OpenCourseWare

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