It shows how important this town was right up until a late date in the Middle Ages. As it was situated at the crossroads of trade routes, Bosra was also a stop-off point for Muslim pilgrims heading to the holy towns of Mecca and Medina. Built out of black basalt in 1134 on the site of an earlier seven meters long. Its twelve meter high minaret was built one and a half meters to the west of the mosque. Arabic inscriptions engraved in the plaster can be seen above the mihrab.
Some sites are specially of interest to experts , whilst others can be more generally appreciated.
A circular structure rises above a steep glacis to crown a volcanic hill. Further out, at Umm Al Qotein , almost on the Syro-Jordanian frontier, there are extensive ruins.