HALL OF MYRIAD PATHS
Tradition present: Islam
One place written in Syria. Each carries its history, architecture, site and orientation, festivals, and the way to get there.
Each dot is one placeHover to see its name, click to open its page
All 1 pages now have an English version.
One of the oldest and most monumental mosques in the world, built by Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I between 706 and 715 CE on the three-millennium sacred precinct of the Aramaean Temple of Hadad, the Roman Temple of Jupiter, and the Byzantine Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, famed for its eighth-century gold-ground mosaics and the Shrine of Prophet Yahya.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Because they change constantly. A library that is wrong once about a practical detail loses its standing on everything else. Check with the place itself before you travel.
From Wikimedia Commons under open licences, each credited to its photographer, or photographed by UK MASTER ACADEMY. No image is published without both its author and its licence.
Four tests: it is officially listed as a heritage site, it belongs to a tradition this library covers, its site and orientation can be read in feng shui terms, and an openly licensed photograph exists.
The library opens one country at a time, beginning with the countries that have the most readers, and within each country with its most significant places. A grey country is simply one whose turn has not come. Suggestions are welcome through the page of Master Ưng Khiêm.
