al-kala'a (the citadel)

This is the citadel built in the something something century by Salah ibn Yusuf Al-Din (or something like that), an Ayyubid sultan. The Ayyubid dynasty didn't last long, and began during the Crusades. Salah al-Din was the first Sultan and in English we spell his name Saladin. He was around the same time as Richard the Lion Hearted. The whole place is the citadel, and this is a view of the mosque within it, the only place I got to see before it closed.

A view of the mosque from within the marble courtyard. The ablution fountain is being restored, and so are a lot of the other parts of the place.

Me in front of the citadel. You can't see my hand so well, but I'm rocking the peace.

A mosque window.

It is what it is.