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the sources credit it to al-Walid
Saladin came four and a half centuries later
the Conqueror came seven centuries later
the Umayyads built it, not the Abbasids
the sources record the site''s earlier uses
it stood on an old sacred site
it was built in old Damascus
it was built in the city''s heart, not a mountain
the sources note their avoiding faces
its mosaics are golden Islamic, not Roman
it carries famous mosaics
they avoided human faces
the sources have his grave there for both faiths
the Prophet''s grave is in Medina, not Damascus
it holds John''s grave, not al-Walid''s
the sources name John''s grave there
the sources give its early shape
the pencil shape is Ottoman, not Umayyad
square, not twisted, in the sources
it has an early square minaret
the sources record its fires and rebuildings
the sources record its fires
it stayed standing through rebuildings
it stayed a mosque in the sources
it joined hall, courtyard and minaret in one form
its importance is historic and architectural, not size
it is in Damascus, not Mecca
it is counted the greatest Umayyad mosque
its accounts reach us from travellers and historians
books and mosaics document it
Muslims and Europeans wrote of it
it was written of centuries before the Ottomans
it gathered the place''s history in one building
the sources have it join the ages in its site
it joined local history, not Chinese
it joined temple, church and mosque
the sources record both faiths'' respect for John''s grave
the grave is old and known
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