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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- a walking tour in Marjeh Square in the center of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Friday, May 19, 2023
The square was built by the Ottomans in the late nineteenth century. A new post office and municipality were built there using steel and cement, new materials for Damascus at that time, The Ottomans publicly executed seven Syrian national activists in the square on Martyrs' Day, 6 May 1916, and it is for this reason known as "Martyrs' Square". After the French took control of Syria they continued to use the square for the same purpose.
Marjeh includes dozens of buildings mixed between ancient and modern architecture, eastern and European. Modern hotels were established in Marjeh Square at the beginning of the last century after the end of the role of inns known as places for travelers to sleep. Also, the first cinemas were established in Marjeh in Damascus in 1918.. It spread in the square and is still Cafes, the oldest of which are Dimitri Cafe, Al Kamal Cafe, Ali Pasha and Al Ward. It witnessed the birth of Damascene theaters, including the Zahrat Damascus and Al-Nasr Theatre, and Al-Quwatli Theatre, which was established in the early twentieth century and ended with a fire in 1928, in which famous male and female singers sang. During the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid, huge new government buildings were built in Marjeh according to the modern European architecture, including the headquarters of the Government House, the Municipal Department, the Tramway Department, the Post Department, the Justice Department, the Hamidiyah Barracks, the Jubkhana Military Munitions Depot, the Royal Properties Department, the Post and Telegraph Department, the Telegraph Barracks and the Al-Abed building, which is still standing. Until now. Thus, Al-Marjah was and still is the meeting place for all Damascenes and Syrians until now, and it is a stark image of the current overcrowding with its strange mixture of shops selling luxurious Damascene sweets and shops selling nuts, especially pistachios, to popular restaurants and cafes, offices of sworn translators, and commentators who carry out legal transactions For those who ask for it, shops selling oriental items, antiques, souvenirs, Damascene handicrafts, musical instruments, etc.. Perhaps Marjah is currently the only place in Damascus that does not know calm or sleep, where popular and luxurious hotels are spread side by side, and on its sidewalks remain sellers of national and foreign smoke, as well as sellers of lotteries and chewing gum The nuts are awake day and night, united by one place full of contradictions and the beauty of life.
