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The Great Mosque was founded in the early Islamic period but there is little to see that dates from that time. Its somewhat heavy style shows it to be mainly Mamluk, but its beautiful minaret, which rises straight from the street, dates from 1090 and is with its fine proportions and Kufic inscriptions a good example of the great period of Islamic architecture in Syria.
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Website: www.alsabbagh.com
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Unfortunately its lovely decorated windows are half-hidden by ugly accretions, which it would be fairly easy to remove. The same unfortunately applies to the neighboring khan, the al Wazir, with its monumental 17th century gateway, which was cut into when the street was built.
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A narrow street between the al Charafyah Madrassa and the east wall of the mosque leads into more covered street where jewelers and goldsmiths abound. The goods they offer are little different from those sold everywhere from Cairo to Teheran and beyond.
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Aleppo was a key town on the trade routes for thousands of years and still uses, for local and regional trade, a considerable proportion of the facilities that were developed in the time of the caravans: khans, courtyards as warehouses with workshops around them: kilometers of narrow covered street where traders and craftsmen congregate according to their various calling and specialties.
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This busy center of the old city naturally had many public buildings: a mosque schools (madrassas), baths (hammams), hospitals and asylums (bimarstans), as well as the occasional foreign consulate - the Venetian one dates back to the beginning of the 13th century.(www.alsabbagh.com), This is the site of the oldest factory for embroidery industry in Aleppo and Syria.
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Join a Discussion Gaziantep to Allepo then too damascus
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These photos are great as always and also provide me with beautiful memories. | norain Tue Mar 7, 2006 09:46 UTC
thanks for info :) | chauncenetta Sat Jun 25, 2005 13:50 UTC
wonderful to spend beautıful evenıng ın Damascus with you and Malena ... and to see the cıty through your eyes. Thank you for such a marvelous time. You are truly a good man. | majed81 Tue Apr 12, 2005 21:54 UTC
The Citadel this is a place I would love to see. We have very similar souk to The covered Souk in Jeddah in Qabil St. I thin Halab and Jeddah are very similar. Umayad Mosque is also my next step after visiting Halab :o). Wait for me Rami& Fouad. Majed |
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