Al-Muwaqqar

Al-Muwaqqar الموقر
District
Location of district in Amman
Coordinates: 31°48′56″N 36°5′39″E / 31.81556°N 36.09417°E / 31.81556; 36.09417
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Amman Governorate
Time zone	UTC + 2

Al-Muwaqqar (Arabic: الموقر) is a district in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.^[1] The village contains the scant ruins of an Umayyad palace, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, one of the desert castles. Little remains of the palace today except several acanthus leaf capitals and gauge of a water reservoir.^[2]

The district is the headquarters of the 3rd Armored Division and a police training center. Most of the families which are staying in the region are from Bani Sakhr, like Al-Khraisha, Al-Arabid, Al-Jbour, Al-Qudahh.