3D print the Umayyad Mosque
A free, printable model of the mosque's walled courtyard, long prayer hall, dome and tall minarets, set among the dense buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Umayyad Mosque
The Umayyad Mosque, also called the Great Mosque of Damascus, lies within the old city of Syria's capital, Damascus. It ranks among the world's largest and oldest mosques and is considered the oldest mosque that is still used in its original form. Many medieval Muslim writers regarded it as a "wonder of the world". Fire, war damage and repairs have altered it, yet it is among the few mosques that keep the form and features of their 8th-century construction.
The site was already a place of worship in the Iron Age, when Arameans built a temple there to Hadad, their god of rain. Under Roman rule it served the imperial cult of Jupiter and ranked among Syria's biggest temples, and the mosque's walls began as that temple's inner walls. In 391, Emperor Theodosius I converted the temple into a cathedral. In 634 Muslim forces captured Damascus, and part of the cathedral was set aside as a small prayer house for them. In 706 the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I resolved to build a large congregational mosque on the site and returned other properties to the Christians as compensation.
Over nine years, the mosque was raised by thousands of laborers and artisans drawn from the Islamic and Byzantine empires. Its large basilica-like plan consisted of three parallel aisles and a central nave set at right angles. It was noted for its marble paneling and for extensive gold mosaics of plant motifs covering some 4,000 square meters (43,000 sq ft), likely the world's largest. Christian and Muslim traditions both hold that John the Baptist's head is buried there.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 23 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 28 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 36 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Three slender minarets
- Three tall, narrow minarets rise above the courtyard walls and prayer hall. Print friendly adapts their thin tips to your print scale; printing slowly helps the narrow tops form cleanly.
- Arcades and courtyard domes
- A row of small arches runs along the courtyard, with small domed structures standing in the open court. A larger print and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the arches open.
- One piece with the ground
- The Umayyad Mosque is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Umayyad Mosque takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Umayyad Mosque is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Umayyad Mosque STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Umayyad Mosque grows with the print: about 23 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
