The courtyard in the northern half of the Omayyad Mosque. This site has been a temple for 3000 years, first to Hadad, then Jupiter, John the Baptist, and since 636 AD, Allah. Its most recent reconstruction was in 1893, after a fire. It has three minarets. Visible here is the Minaret al-Arous, the Minaret of the Bride. (The lead roof was a dowry to Caliph al-Walid ibn Abdel-Malek.)