The Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque is the most famous landmark in Homs and an icon of late Ottoman architecture in inner Syria. It was built over the tomb of Khalid ibn al-Walid in 1852, and the current structure was erected by Governor Nazim Pasha in 1912. The design blends Ottoman planning with Mamluk influences: two marble domes reaching 34 meters in height cover the prayer hall, and two slender minarets have muqarnas crowns. The hall is accessed via a marble staircase framed by lemon trees. The tomb contains a silver casket disguised with gold and engraved with verses about jihad, while five stained-glass windows cast a blue light into the chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque is the most famous landmark in Homs and an icon of late Ottoman architecture in inner Syria. It was built over the tomb of Khalid ibn al-Walid in 1852, and the current structure was erected by Governor Nazim Pasha in 1912. The design blends Ottoman planning with Mamluk influences: two marble domes reaching 34 meters in height cover the prayer hall, and two slender minarets have muqarnas crowns. The hall is accessed via a marble staircase framed by lemon trees. The tomb contains a silver casket disguised with gold and engraved with verses about jihad, while five stained-glass windows cast a blue light into the chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,358],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homs","category-religious-monuments-homs","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}