Editing Aleppo (section)

====Places of worship====
[[File:Great Mosque of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.jpg|thumb|The courtyard of the Great Mosque of Aleppo]]
[[File:Al-Shibani Alp8.JPG|thumb|[[Al-Shibani Church|Al-Shibani building]]]]
*[[Great Mosque of Aleppo]] (Jāmi' Bani Omayya al-Kabīr), founded {{Circa|715}} by Umayyad caliph [[Walid I]] and most likely completed by his successor [[Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik|Sulayman]]. The building contains a tomb associated with [[Zechariah (priest)|Zachary]], father of [[John the Baptist]]. Construction of the present structure for Nur al-Din commenced in 1158. However, it was damaged during the [[Mongol]] invasion of 1260 and was rebuilt. The {{cvt|45|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} tower (described as "the principal monument of medieval Syria")<ref name="Burns 1999 35">{{cite book |first=Russ |last=Burns |title=Monuments of Syria |url=https://archive.org/details/monumentsofsyria0000burn |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/monumentsofsyria0000burn/page/35 35] |year=1999 |location=New York, London |isbn=9781860642449}}</ref> was erected in 1090–1092 under the first Seljuk sultan, [[Tutush I]]. It had four façades with different styles. The tower was completely destroyed during the Syrian civil war in March 2013 (reported on 24 March 2013).
*[[Al-Nuqtah Mosque]] ("Mosque of the drop [of blood]"), a [[Shia|Shī'ah]] mosque, which contains a stone said to be marked by a drop of [[Husayn ibn Ali|Husayn]]'s blood. The site is believed to have previously been a monastery, which was converted into a mosque in 944.
*[[Al-Shuaibiyah Mosque]], [[Al-Qaiqan Mosque]], [[Mahmandar Mosque]], [[Altun Bogha Mosque]], [[Al-Sahibiyah Mosque]], [[Bahsita Mosque]], [[Al-Tawashi Mosque]], [[Al-Otrush Mosque]], [[Al-Saffahiyah Mosque]], [[Khusruwiyah Mosque]], [[Al-Adiliyah Mosque]], [[Bahramiyah Mosque]], etc.
*Churches of al-Jdayde quarter: the [[Forty Martyrs Cathedral|Forty Martyrs Armenian Apostolic Cathedral]], the [[Church of the Dormition of Our Lady|Dormition of Our Lady]] Greek Orthodox church, [[Mar Assia al-Hakim Church|Mar Assia al-Hakim Syrian Catholic church]], the [[Saint Elijah Cathedral, Aleppo|Maronite Cathedral of Saint Elijah]], the Armenian Catholic Cathedral of Our Mother of Reliefs and the Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral of Virgin Mary.
*[[Central Synagogue of Aleppo]] or al-Bandara synagogue, dating to the 9th century. The synagogue was destroyed during an anti-Jewish pogrom in 1947.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-as-pogroms-targeted-aleppo-s-jews-my-family-made-a-dangerous-choice-to-flee-1.9828957 |title=As Pogroms Targeted Aleppo's Jews, My Family Made a Dangerous Choice: To Flee |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=23 June 2021 |archive-date=22 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622103449/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-as-pogroms-targeted-aleppo-s-jews-my-family-made-a-dangerous-choice-to-flee-1.9828957 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the 1980s, the building was restored, but destroyed again during the civil war.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://imageusa.com/restoring-the-great-synagogue-of-aleppo/ |title=Rstoring the Great Synagogue of Aleppo |date=7 November 2019 |access-date=23 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203138/https://imageusa.com/restoring-the-great-synagogue-of-aleppo/ |url-status=live }}</ref>