Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Damascus yakatorwa
nemauto echiArabhu echiMuslim aitungamirirwa naKhalid ibn al-Walid muna 634. Muna 661, Islamic Caliphate yakava pasi pokutonga kwedzinza reUmayyad, iro rakasarudza Damascus kuva dzimbahwe rokutonga renyika yechiMuslim. Khalifa wechitanhatu weUmayyad, al-Walid I (r. 705<unk>715), akarayira kuvakwa kweMosque panzvimbo yechechi yeByzantine muna 706. Izvi zvisati zvaitika, chechi yacho yakanga ichiri kushandiswa nevaKristu vomunzvimbo yacho, asi nzvimbo yokunyengeterera ("musalla") yevaMuslim yakanga yavakwa kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kwechivako chacho. Al-Walid, uyo pachake aitarisira basa racho, akaita kuti zvakawanda zvechechi huru, kubatanidza "musalla", zviputswe. Kuvakwa kwemusikiti kwakachinja zvachose marongerwo echivako chacho. Nepo chechi (uye tembere dzakatangira) dzaiva nechivako chikuru chiri pakati penzvimbo ine mativi mana, imba yeminamato yemusikiti yakaiswa pamadziro ayo ekumaodzanyemba. Mugadziri wacho akashandisazve mbiru nemasuo zvechechi, achizvibvisa ndokuzviisazve muchivako chitsva. Purofesa Alain George akaongororazve zvivako zvokuvakisa uye magadzirirwo omuzinda uyu wokutanga wokunamatira panzvimbo yacho achishandisa nhetembo nhatu dzakanga dzisati dzamboshandurwa uye rondedzero dzevadzidzisi vomunguva yepakati nepakati. Imba itsva yokunamatira yaifanira kushanda semusikiti mukuru weungano yevagari vomuDhamasiko uye somutero kuguta racho. Achipindura kupikisa kwevaKristu, al-Walid akarayira kuti dzimwe chechi dzose dzakanga dzatorwa muguta idzorerwe kuvaKristu sechinotsiva. Mosque rakapedzwa muna 715, nokukurumidza pashure porufu rwaal-Walid, nomutsivi wake, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715<unk>717).