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Traditional Syrian housing
No full textexterior, northern housing settlement, exterior view with dome
Khan of Asad Pasha al Azm
No full textKhan Asad Pasha is an important monument in the walled city of Damascus, within the Bzouriyyeh Souk. It was built by the governor of Syria, Asad al Azem, in 1752, and has changed hands more than once since. It was being used as a storage space in the heart of a busy commercial area by a large number of shopowners. This use was found incompatible with and detrimental to its many qualities and the Syrian Department of Museums and Antiquities decided to intervene. The two storey structure, which is considered to be unique, is square in plan, with a large, central court surmounted by nine domes. It contains a total of 80 rooms distributed on two levels around the courtyard. A monumental portal allows access to and from the souk. The intervention included the reconstruction of certain structural members, such as the four central pillars of the courtyard, and the domes. The construction is double bearing walls of stone and four central pillars, flat roof combined with brick domes and stone vaults, bricks and plaster mixed with gravel for infill, and alternative courses of white limestone and black basalt on the external façades.
Source: Archnetinterior, view from courtyar
Jami al Sinaniye
No full textexterior, oblique view along front facade, with base of minaret, before 198
City of Dimashq, Bilad-Al-Sham
No full textmap, plan: Sharaf section of the city. From Ross Burns "Damascus: A History", 200
Citadel of Damascus
No full textfortified walls with bastions; includes palace rebuilt by at time of Ayyubids
"Under the Ayyubid dynasty (reg 1186–1260 in Damascus) the city became the seat of a princely court and experienced increased prosperity and architectural vitality. The citadel was totally reconstructed to house a palace, and male and female members of the dynasty, military officers and religious dignitaries erected many monuments in the city and in the northern suburb of Salihiyya on Mt Qasiyun, where a construction boom took place. Extant buildings include mosque-madrasas, with or without the founder’s tomb attached, and free-standing mausolea. All these buildings have austere façades with high portals. They were constructed in ashlar, an uncommon (and presumably expensive) material that was replaced at the end of the period by alternating courses of basalt and limestone."exterior, walls, 200
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