10/29/2004

Busy Market


Souk al-Hamidiyeh is covered with high iron vaulting, but light still filters through bullet-holes that were made during wedding celebrations, protests and demonstrations. The oldest part of the souk was built in 1780. It was expanded in 1883, and was covered in 1911. It is 600 meters long, 15 meters wide and two-storey high.

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