Model of the Bazaar of Aleppo (Syria)

Part 1

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This exhibit is 80cm by 80cm ( just under 3ft x 3ft ). The model shows a segment of the world’s largest bazaar, still in use today, near Aleppo’s Friday Mosque and Citadel Hill: a caravanserai and a public baths complex surrounded by narrow souq lanes.

Scale                                       1:25
Base Area                                4 m x 4 m
ca. 700 handcrafted Muslim figurines and thousands of goods of the bazaar
 


View inside the souq: a bath called hammam in the foreground, in the backgroud there is the caravanserai, Khan Nahassine


Base area of the modell: 4 x 4m
View inside the structure of the souq, the bath in the foreground


Carpet weaver

Pottery

       
              Observation from a child's perspective                                             Chess players                                                     Carpet weavers


Fotos: Bernhard Siepen

              


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Copyright: Gesellschaft für Internationale Burgenkunde e.V., Aachen
Stand: 25.02.2008