Several different denominations and sects of Islam are practised within Syria, whom collectively, constitute approximately 87% of the population and form a majority in most of the districts of the country.
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
The Great Mosque of Aleppo was built by the Umayyads.
The Great Mosque of Maarrat al-Numan is a 12th-century Ayyubid-era mosque.
The Nabi Habeel Mosque is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque.
Lebanese Shia Muslims, communally and historically known as matāwila, are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite and Druze sects. The vast majority of Shia Muslims in Lebanon adhere to Twelver Shi'ism, making them the only major Twelver Shia community extant in the Levant.
An 18th century copy of a miniature depicting Sheikh Baha'uddin al-Amili
Adham Khanjar and Sadiq Hamzeh, two prominent anti-French revolutionary figures
Shia Twelver (Metawali) woman in the Bekaa Valley in traditional clothes, 1950s
Alawite El-Zahra Mosque in Jabal Mohsen, Lebanon