{
 "id": "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "building-umayyad-mosque",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بناء جامع دمشق",
  "en": "Building of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة سبع وثمانين شرع الوليد بن عبد الملك في بناء جامع دمشق وكتب بتوسيع المسجد النبوي وبنائه، ويذكر ابن أبي عبلة أن الوليد افتتح الهند والأندلس وبنى مسجد دمشق وكان يعطيه قصاع الفضة يقسمها على قراء مسجد بيت المقدس {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 367}.",
  "en": "In year 87 al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik began building the congregational mosque of Damascus and ordered the enlargement and rebuilding of the Prophet's Mosque; Ibn Abi Abla couples the conquests of India and al-Andalus with 'he built the mosque of Damascus', and recalls the silver basins al-Walid gave him to distribute among the qurra' of the Jerusalem mosque {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 367}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 705.9986858046366,
  "latest": 706.9980218621558
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0706~",
   "hijri": "0087",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "سنة 87؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 367}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0706~",
   "hijri": "0087",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "سنة 87؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 367}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "founding",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0706~",
    "hijri": "0087",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "سنة 87؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 367}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 367",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-10"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434",
   "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 87هـ شرع الوليد بن عبد الملك في بناء جامع [[place/damascus|دمشق]]. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رواية السيوطي",
     "markdown": "يذكر السيوطي أن [[person/al-walid-ibn-abd-al-malik|الوليد]] كتب أيضاً بتوسيع المسجد النبوي وبنائه. ويورد عن ابن أبي عبلة أن الوليد افتتح الهند والأندلس وبنى مسجد دمشق. وكان يعطيه قصاع الفضة يقسمها على قراء مسجد بيت المقدس. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}\n\nالتاريخ الميلادي مشتق. وتفاصيل العمارة تحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 87 AH [[person/al-walid-ibn-abd-al-malik|al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik]] began to build the great mosque of [[place/damascus|Damascus]]. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "al-Suyuti's account",
     "markdown": "al-Suyuti says that al-Walid also wrote to have the Prophet's mosque expanded and rebuilt. He relates from Ibn Abi Abla that al-Walid conquered India and al-Andalus and built the mosque of Damascus, and that he used to give bowls of silver to be divided among the readers of the mosque of Jerusalem. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}\n\nThe Gregorian date is derived. The details of the building need an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "سنہ 87ھ میں [[person/al-walid-ibn-abd-al-malik|ولید بن عبدالملک]] نے [[place/damascus|دمشق]] کی جامع مسجد کی تعمیر شروع کی۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیوطی کی روایت",
     "markdown": "سیوطی بیان کرتے ہیں کہ ولید نے مسجد نبوی کی توسیع اور اس کی تعمیر کا حکم بھی دیا تھا۔ وہ ابنِ ابی عبلہ سے نقل کرتے ہیں کہ ولید نے ہند اور اندلس فتح کیے اور دمشق کی مسجد بنوائی۔ وہ بیت المقدس کی مسجد کے قاریوں میں بانٹنے کے لیے چاندی کے پیالے بھیجا کرتے تھے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.367}\n\nعیسوی تاریخ اخذ کی گئی ہے۔ تعمیر کی تفصیلات کے لیے مزید ماخذ درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/building-umayyad-mosque",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/al-walid-ibn-abd-al-malik",
   "type": "had_participant",
   "inverse": true,
   "role": "الآمر بالبناء",
   "sources": [
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  },
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   "type": "occurred_at",
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  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
  "building/qasr-shams-al-muluk",
  "building/umayyad-mosque",
  "event/abd-al-ghani-damascus-595",
  "event/afdal-damascus-596",
  "event/al-adil-takes-damascus-592",
  "event/al-ghazali-damascus-retreat-488",
  "event/al-sibayn-reclamation"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}