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25/06/2024

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هذا الصندوق البديع من النحاس من القرن 15 وكان يختص بمعدّات ضابط الوقت في المسجد الأموي الكبير في دمشق.

وضابط الوقت هو مهندس ميكانيك مسؤول عن صيانة ساعة المسجد المائية، وكان اسمه آنذاك محمّد الحموي. وإلى جانب مهمّته الهندسية كان مسؤولاً عن إعلان الوقت لتحديد مواقيت الصلاة بدقّة.

الصندوق نموذج لجودة وروعة الصناعات النحاسية العربية في المشرق في عهد الدولة العبّاسية الثالثة في القاهرة، التي نعرفها اليوم باسم سلطنة المماليك.

هل تستطيع قراءة ما هو منقوش على الصندوق؟

الصندوق وبعد أن سرقته الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية؛ معروض اليوم في متحف الفنون المتروپوليتان في نيويورك.

This is an amble copper box from the 15th century and specialised in the equipment of the time officer at the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

The time officer is a mechanical engineer responsible for the maintenance of the mosque's water clock, and his name was then Mohammed Al-Hamwi. In addition to his engineering mission, he was responsible for announcing the time to accurately determine prayer times.

The fund is a model of the quality and splendour of the Arab copper industries in the Levant during the era of the Third Abbasid State in Cairo, which we know today as the Sultanate of the Mamluks.

Can you read what is engraved on the box?

The box, after being stolen by the United States of America; is on display today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

16/05/2022

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27/12/2021

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St. Paul's Church, one of the most important historical & religious sites of Syria.
It was built in 635 AD, and the door has an important story in history, as it represents the beginning of the spread of Christianity in the world where it was revealed.
Bab Kisan was the ancient city gate through which St. Paul the Apostol escaped.
The early Christian tradition identified a window beside the Kisan Gate, the window from which St. Paul was lowered from the gate of Damascus while escaping, and St. Paul himself later says that it was through a window that he escaped from a certain death (2 Cor 11:32-33).
Moreover, all the reports confirm the existence of a window beside the Bab Kisan, which was venerated as the place of St. Paul's escape.
The Christian Tradition says that after St. Paul's baptism on a Street called the in Damascus Old City, he began the tireless Christian preaching journey that would characterize the rest of his life.
The door turned into an entrance to a church that was named after Saint Paul, as it was built using the original stones of the gate.
Bab Kisan is the gate on the south eastern side of Damascus and was dedicated to , as In St. Paul's time, the city of Damascus was surrounded by a wall pierced by seven gates.
The gate has been sealed and then reopened and restored several times.
The blocks at the base of the gate are Roman, while the style of the arch is clearly typical of the Mameluke period.
To visit the Chapel of St. Paul, go out the from the Straight Street and keep to the right about 400-meter, stretch of the ancient city wall stops at Bab Kisan, on the motorway to the Damascus Airport.
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20/12/2021

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The Great Mosque of ( )..
Umayyad Great Mosque one of the most spectacular sites in Damascus which backs to the 8th-century, It is located in Damascus Old City.
The Great Mosque of Damascus is a unique monument of Islamic architecture, and one of the most holiest sites in the world.
The mosque holds a shrine which still believed to contain the head of , honored as a prophet by both and alike.
The great Mosque was built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary, and was constructed by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid Bin Abd alMalik ( 705-717)
Umayyad Mosque one of the largest, oldest & most Holiest mosques in the world #اكسبلور