(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued Presidential Decision No. 18 for 2012 on forming a committee to carry out maintenance and rehabilitation works of the Great Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo.
The committee is headed by Governor of Aleppo , Mohammad Wahid Aqqad, and it consists of seven members.
The decision set December 31st, 2013 as the deadline for completing the maintenance and rehabilitation works on.
The committee members are:
- Aleppo Governor Mohammad Wahid Aqqad Chairman
- Director General of Military Construction Establishment, General Riad Issa member
- Director of Antiquities and Museums in Aleppo Yousef Kanjo member
- Head of the Antiquities Institution Mohammad Qejeh member
- Engineer Marwan Hamzeh from Engineering Department at Aleppo University member
- Engineer Fadel Mzayek from Engineering Department at Aleppo University member
- Engineer Mohammad Mesbah Baqi from Engineers' Syndicate in Aleppo member
- Engineer Mohammad Wahid Haddad from Aleppo Endowments Directorate member
