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An Ayyubid madrasa begun under Nur al-Din Zangi and completed in the time of al-Adil, Saladin's brother, whose tomb it holds. It faces al-Zahiriyya Madrasa near the Umayyad Mosque.

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A Mamluk madrasa holding the tomb of Sultan al-Zahir Baybars (died 1277), built by his son near the Umayyad Mosque, with golden mosaics in its domed chamber. From the late 19th century it housed the Zahiriyya Library, the first major public library in Damascus.

Damascus

Remains of the Roman Temple of Jupiter, raised in the first centuries AD on the site of an older Aramaean temple of the god Hadad. Its most striking survivor is the western gateway with its massive Corinthian columns, at the end of Souq al-Hamidiyah facing the Umayyad Mosque.

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A historic bathhouse inside the Old City of Damascus, in the Amara Jowaniyyeh quarter, about 200 m from the Umayyad Mosque. It stands on As Sabe' Tawale' Lane. The Old City of Damascus has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

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The tomb of Sultan Saladin (died 1193), built in 1196 in a small garden against the north wall of the Umayyad Mosque. It was restored after the visit of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1898, who donated a marble cenotaph that stands beside the original wooden one over Saladin's remains.

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The graves of Ottoman airmen who died in 1914 during a pioneering flight from Istanbul to Cairo. They were buried beside the Mausoleum of Saladin near the Umayyad Mosque.