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Nur al-Din Mosque

حماة, Italy

Nur al-Din Mosque

The Nur Al-Din Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع نُور ٱلدِّين, romanized: Jāmiʿ Nūr ad-Dīn) is a Zengid-era mosque in Hama, Syria. It was founded by Nur al-Din in 1163-64 CE. It also contained a historic minbar from the same date, which has subsequently been relocated to the local Hama Museum. The mosque was p

rofoundly damaged in the 1982 shelling of the city and subsequently restored to its current state.

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