• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    The Omari Mosque was originally a 5th century Byzantine church that was built over a more ancient temple. It was converted into a mosque in the 7th century, then a Crusader church in the 11th century, and back to a mosque in the 13th century.

    The architectural elements of the Crusader church were still apparent in the modern-day mosque, and an etching of a Jewish menorah on a mosque column, believed to have been originally part of an ancient synagogue, was once documented, and was destroyed in recent decades.

    All that history- gone.

    Edit: If you want some perspective, this mosque was from the century before the Buddhas that the Taliban destroyed.