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Landmark Middle East religious

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

2001 CE – still standing

Oman's principal mosque in Muscat, blending Islamic architectural traditions from across the Muslim world with locally quarried sandstone

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Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque on Wikipedia.

Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–2000 CE)
  2. No border recorded here in this snapshot (2010 CE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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