Mausoleum of Saladin
Damascus, Syria
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Located adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, the Mausoleum of Saladin is an Ottoman-style structure built in 1196, three years after the death of the medieval Ayyubid Sultan. The tomb complex originally included the Madrassah al-Aziziah, of which only fragmentary remains—a few columns and an internal arch—survive beside the renovated mausoleum. The structure houses two sarcophagi: a wooden one believed to contain Saladin's remains, and a marble sarcophagus commissioned in the late nineteenth century by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and later restored by German Emperor Wilhelm II. The marble sarcophagus was originally adorned with a golden ornate gilt bronze wreath, subsequently removed by either Faisal I or Lawrence of Arabia and deposited in the Imperial War Museum.
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- mausoleum
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- Damascus, Syria
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