Khan Al-Harir

The limit of the oldest historical boxes in the ancient city of Damascus, where it dates back to the Ottoman era, is located to the southwest of the Umayyad Mosque in the Silk Market, was built by the Ottoman governor Darwish Pasha 1571-1573 AD. Two floors: The ground floor of external stores, its facades are open to the market, which numbered 27 shops, and all of these stores have bishops from clinical tribe. As for the rest of the interior shops, they open to the celestial space of the Khan, when we go beyond the gate and after penetration of the vestibule covered with two connected domains, we reach the open courtyard surrounded by nineteen stores for each warehouse store. The stores are covered with clinical or connected kisses, and they are built of black sculptural stone, and above their doors and windows are decorated with exquisite sculptures and we ascend to the top floor of two degrees in the vestibule, and we reach the porch of the ocean covered with forty -four small dome, and behind it the fifty -two rooms covered with clinical acceptance & nbsp; < /P>