Aramaean temple of Hadad

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ancient temple religious sanctuary

The Aramaean temple of Hadad was an ancient Near Eastern sanctuary in Damascus dedicated to the storm god Hadad, later overbuilt by successive Greco-Roman and Islamic religious structures.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Aramaean temple of Hadad canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient temple ⓘ religious sanctuary ⓘ
approximateLocation	site of the present Umayyad Mosque ⓘ
architecturalType	walled temple precinct ⓘ
associatedCity	capital of the Aramaean kingdom of Damascus ⓘ
associatedWith	Aram-Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ Jupiter Damascenus NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint John the Baptist NERFINISHED ⓘ
category	Ancient Near Eastern temples ⓘ Aramaean architecture ⓘ History of Damascus ⓘ
culture	Aramaean ⓘ
dedicatedTo	Hadad NERFINISHED ⓘ
followedBy	Christian basilica of Saint John the Baptist in Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Temple of Jupiter Damascenus NERFINISHED ⓘ Umayyad Mosque NERFINISHED ⓘ
function	cult center ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ place of sacrifice ⓘ
hasDeity	Hadad NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDeityType	storm god ⓘ
hasPrimaryGod	Hadad NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Roman cult of Jupiter Damascenus ⓘ later religious use of the site in Damascus ⓘ
influencedBy	West Semitic religious traditions ⓘ
languageContext	Aramaic ⓘ
laterReligiousLayers	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ Greco-Roman paganism ⓘ Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Ancient Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ
materialRemains	foundations reused in later buildings ⓘ substructures beneath the Umayyad Mosque complex ⓘ
overbuiltBy	Byzantine Christian church ⓘ Greco-Roman religious structures ⓘ Roman Temple of Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ Umayyad Mosque NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	historic religious complex of central Damascus ⓘ
politicalRole	royal cult center of Aram-Damascus ⓘ
precededBy	earlier cult sites of Hadad in the region ⓘ
religion	Aramaean religion ⓘ
timePeriod	Iron Age ⓘ early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
worshipPractices	processions ⓘ sacrificial rites to Hadad ⓘ votive offerings ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Roman temple of Jupiter → builtOnSiteOf → Aramaean temple of Hadad ⓘ

subject surface form: Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus