The eastern propylaea of the great Roman Temple of Jupiter Damascenus survives as a row of weathered Corinthian columns just outside the Hamidiyah Souq's eastern gate. The temple complex was vast — large enough that it later became first the cathedral of Damascus and then the Umayyad Mosque, which still occupies the central enclosure.
The four surviving columns are 11 metres tall and now stand isolated in the small square between the souq and the mosque entrance. They give a clear sense of the scale of the Roman temple, and provide one of the most striking compositions in Damascus: the columns in the foreground, the Hamidiyah Souq behind, and the minaret of the mosque rising beyond.