Al-Marjeh Square

A large square in the center of Damascus, also known as the Martyrs Square to execute a group of Arab writers and politicians in it on May 6, 1916, by order of Jamal Pasha, commander of the Ottoman army, and in the middle of the Marjeh Square, a teacher erect one of the landmarks of the city One hundred years, and this column was built on a mosque that is the smallest in the world and this monument was called the sectaric, and this column and the embodiment came as a memorial to launch communications between the center Damascus and Medina and the Islamic countries at the end of the Ottoman era and in conjunction with the launch of the Hijazi iron line from the city of Damascus and the station of the trains adjacent to the square Al Marjeh & nbsp;