Municipal Park and Mubarakiya

MarketAl-Mubarakiya Market is a Kuwaiti market located in the Qibla area. It is a heritage market and was named after Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah. The market is distinguished by its design that resembles old markets. It is one of the heritage landmarks of the State of Kuwait. This market is full of abundant types of meat, fish, food and consumer items, popular sweets, dates, honey, perfume shops, and men’s and women’s clothing, in addition to a group of accessory stores, heritage goods, antiques, ceramics, and souvenirs, all at reasonable prices. There is also a market for buying and selling gold jewelry and jewellery. . There are also many popular cafes, lounges, and restaurants inside the market, designed in the old style and serving popular food and drinks.Its beginningIn 1897, Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah opened a kiosk, and the kiosk was considered an office for managing public affairs and listening to people’s opinions and problems. Then it became the first court in Kuwait. At present, it is possible to go to the kiosk in the Mubarakiya Market, which is currently an archaeological museum that displays Sheikh Mubarak’s belongings and the means of life at that time.Al-Mubarakiya Market was named after Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah. It was created by Kuwaiti merchants, who used to bring their goods from Iraq, India, and Africa via ships and meet in this market to exchange goods. The market gained wide fame throughout the Gulf, especially as it is the feeding market for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and after that it became a commercial forum for Gulf merchants.Al-Mubarakiya Market offers many different types of meat, fish, food and consumer items, popular sweets, dates, honey, herbal shops, and men’s and women’s clothing, in addition to a group of accessories stores, heritage goods, antiques, ceramics, and souvenirs, all at reasonable prices. It also contains a market for buying and selling gold jewelry and jewellery.Al-Mubarakiya Market includes a group of markets that still exist and some of which have been removedMubarakiya Gold MarketMoney exchange marketArms marketMubarakiya fish marketVegetable and fruit marketDates marketSpice and perfume marketMasabih marketAl-Mubarakiya Market also includes a group of popular cafes, rest houses, and restaurants that were designed in the old architectural style and offer popular food and drinks, and sweet shops that are famous for old Kuwaiti sweets such as darabeel, rahash, baqsam, dumplings, and baklava, which Kuwaitis and Gulf people have been accustomed to eating since ancient times. Al-Shamali Sweets has become a reference for visitors to Kuwait. To buy the best Kuwaiti sweets.Mubarakiya Market remains the most famous and popular, as it attracts citizens, residents and tourists to spend their evenings in an atmosphere that takes them back to the past, which is filled with the fragrance of beautiful heritage and its simplicity, in addition to the nature of its popular foods and delicious drinks.”Mubarakiya Market is full of many ancient archaeological collectibles dating back hundreds of years, and heritage engineering design that makes tourists experience the atmosphere of ancient heritage markets, whether with their collectibles, contents or design.​