Umayyad Mosque Completed

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, was commissioned by Caliph Al-Walid I in 706 and completed in 715 under his successor Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik. Built on the site of a Byzantine church, which itself had replaced a Roman temple, it represented a significant architectural achievement of the early Islamic period and remains one of the oldest and most important mosques in the world.