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Gold Market
View on WikipediaThe Gold Market (Arabic: سوق الذهب Souk ad-Dahab; also known as the Qissariya Market, Arabic: سوق القيسارية Souk al-Qissariya) was a narrow covered passageway located in the old quarter of Gaza, Palestine; it was both a center for trading and buying gold, and location for foreign exchange.[1] The Market was located along the southern edge of the Great Mosque of Gaza,[2] beside the main Omar Mukhtar Street. The Market was configured with a pointed and vaulted roof above the central road, which was lined on both sides by small shops that are themselves roofed by the cross vaults of the covered central road.[3]
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History
[edit]Gazan judge Sheikh Shams ad-Din al-Himsi ordered the construction of the Gold Market in 1476 CE during the Mamluk Sultanate. The Market originally formed a part of a much larger covered market, but most of the area was destroyed by the British Army during World War I.[2]
Throughout most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the market was visited mostly by men and women engaged to be married, to pick out gold jewellery, and by mothers-in-law to purchase gifts for their daughters-in-law. However, because of food shortages arising in Gaza from the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Gold Market was used chiefly by elderly Gazans selling family heirlooms to raise cash prior to its destruction.[2]
The market underwent a conservation programme between 2020 and 2023.[4]
The market was destroyed on December 7th, 2023, by an Israeli air strike on the adjacent Great Omari Mosque.[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jacobs, 1998, p.454.
- ^ a b c Gold Market Review Lonelyplanet.
- ^ Travel in Gaza Archived August 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine MidEastTraveling.
- ^ The Catastrophic state of Gaza’s cultural heritage under the deliberate Israeli bombings: Case of Souk Al-Qaisariyya, ICOMOS Palestine, 27 August 2024, p. 2, retrieved 13 February 2025
- ^ Estrin, Daniel (9 December 2023). "Israeli strike leaves Gaza's oldest mosque in ruins". NPR. Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Destruction of the Palestinian cultural heritage of Gaza – in pictures". the Guardian. 11 January 2024. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 5 March 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
Bibliography
[edit]- Jacobs, Daniel (1998), Israel and the Palestinian territories, Rough Guides, ISBN 978-1-85828-248-0
External links
[edit]- Photo album of recovery efforts at the Gold Market
- Marché al-Qaysāriyya (Souk al-Qissariya, marché de l’or) (in French), part of the Gaza, inventaire d’un patrimoine bombardé
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