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Kanīsat Yūḥannā (church)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/12714

A church in Damascus demolished by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. ʿAbd al-Malik to build the Umayyad mosque

Names

  • Arabic: كنيسة يوحنا = Kanīsat Yūḥannā 1

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 465 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “Kanīsat Yūḥannā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/12714.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • McKenzie Cady: assistance with Arabic translation of names from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
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