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   King Abdullah I Mosque

   Built between 1982 and 1989 in the Abdali district and named for Jordan's first king, the mosque is capped by a blue mosaic dome covering prayer space for 3,000 worshippers. It is the one mosque in Amman that admits non-Muslim visitors, who are lent hooded gowns at the door.

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   Ayn Ghazal

   A Neolithic settlement on the edge of Amman, occupied from about 7250 BC and at its height larger than contemporary Jericho. The plaster figures found here, with shell-inlaid eyes, are among the oldest large statues of people ever made.

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   Heshbon

   An ancient town east of the Jordan, named in the Bible as the seat of an Amorite king and later held by Moab and Ammon. Excavation on the mound has traced settlement from the Iron Age through Roman and Byzantine periods.

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   Amman Citadel

   An L-shaped hill above downtown Amman, occupied since the Neolithic and fortified in the Bronze Age — one of the longest continuously inhabited places anywhere. Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad buildings stand on it together.

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   Roman Theatre of Amman

   A theatre for six thousand cut into the hillside in the second century, when the city was the Roman Philadelphia. It faces north so that the audience sat out of the sun, the acoustics still work from the top row, and two small folklore museums occupy the wings.

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   Temple of Hercules

   A Roman temple on the citadel built under Marcus Aurelius, of which a few columns stand. Beside them lie the hand and elbow of a statue that would have been about twelve metres high, the rest of it never found.

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   The Jordan Museum

   Jordan's national museum, opened in 2014, and the clearest single account of the country's past. It holds part of the Dead Sea Scrolls including the Copper Scroll, and the Ain Ghazal statues — plaster figures some nine thousand years old, among the oldest representations of the human form anywhere.

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   King Hussain Mosque

   The largest mosque in Jordan, opened in 2005 and built by Abdullah II in memory of his father. A religious museum attached to it displays objects held to have belonged to the Prophet, and the grounds are laid out as a public park.

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   Jordan Archaeological Museum

   A museum on the citadel opened in 1951, small but holding the Ain Ghazal plaster figures and, for many years, the copper scroll from Qumran. Much of the collection has moved to the newer national museum below.

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    Royal Tank Museum

    A museum of armoured warfare opened in January 2018, with about a hundred and ten tanks and armoured vehicles over twenty thousand square metres — Jordanian, Arab, Israeli, British and Soviet — arranged chronologically through the wars this region has had.

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   Philadelphia

   The name Amman carried from the third century BC, when Ptolemy II took the Ammonite town and renamed it after himself. It became one of the ten cities of the Decapolis and kept the name into the Byzantine period.

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   Cave of the Seven Sleepers

   A cave at ar-Rajib east of Amman, identified with the sleepers of the Qur'an and the Christian legend of Ephesus — young men who hid from persecution and woke centuries later. Sealed tombs and a small mosque stand at the entrance.

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   Raghadan Palace

   The first building the Hashemites raised in Jordan, put up in 1926 for King Abdullah I on the ridge at al-Maquar. It is used for ceremonial occasions and the swearing-in of governments.

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   Roman Baths, Amman

   A Roman bath complex found in 2020 when drainage works were dug in the downtown. Two sculptures and pottery from Roman through Ottoman levels came out of it, and with no money to conserve the site it was covered over in sand and left where it was.

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   Al Husseini Mosque

   The Friday mosque of downtown Amman, rebuilt in Ottoman style in 1924 by Abdullah I on the site of the seventh-century Umayyad mosque, which itself stood on a Byzantine basilica. Pink and white stone, and the centre of the old town's Friday traffic.

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   Umayyad Palace

   An eighth-century Umayyad governor's complex on the citadel, entered through a domed audience hall whose roof was reconstructed in the 1990s. A cistern, a mosque and a colonnaded street survive around it.

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   Our Lady Church

   A Coptic Orthodox church in the Abdali district, standing directly opposite the King Abdullah I Mosque. It was built during Pope Shenouda III's visit to Jordan in 2005 and serves Amman's Egyptian Christian community.

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   Nymphaeum

   A monumental Roman public fountain of the second century, built beside the stream that ran through the city until it was culverted in the twentieth. About a third of it survives among the shops of the downtown, and excavation has proceeded in fits and starts since 2015.

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   Abdoun

   A residential district in southwest Amman and the wealthiest in the city, holding embassies, galleries and the most expensive property in the country.

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    Royal Automobile Museum

    A car museum in Amman in Jordan, the first public automobile museum in the Arab world. It is built around the collection of King Hussein, from a 1916 Cadillac to Formula One cars.

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