Grande Mosquée des Omeyyades
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"https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1728746096363450557 One of the world's great buildings. A site of worship for 4,000 years, with Phoenician, Roman, and Early Christian remnants still visible among the golden mosaics of this masterpiece, remodelled time and again from the Umayyads to the Ottomans."
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