The municipality of Gaziantep in southern Turkey announced on Thursday that the carpets of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus will be ready by the first Tarawih prayer of next Ramadan, which falls at the end of February 2025.
The mayor, Fatima Shahin, revealed in a post on the X platform that the carpet craftsmen in the state famous for its manufacture will be responsible for weaving new carpets for the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
She said that they had previously requested “the renewal of the carpets of the Umayyad Mosque, as our carpet craftsmen in Gaziantep, a world leader in carpet manufacturing, covered the entire cost of the project.”
She continued: “We in the Gaziantep Municipality went and started work, as the carpets of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus will be ready for the first Tarawih prayer, God willing, and we thank God for that.”
On December 8, 2024, Syrian factions took control of the capital, Damascus, days after taking control of other cities, thus ending 61 years of the bloody Baath Party regime and 53 years of the Assad family’s rule.
