Al -Azm Palace in Damascus (ePub)

The palace of Al -Azm is a palace that was built in the eighteenth century AD, and it is at the northern end of the Al -Bazuriya market in ancient Damascus, Syria, and on the north of the Grand Umayyad Mosque, its total area is 6,400 square meters, and it is the construction of the governor of Damascus, Minister Asaad Al -Azm in 1749 AD. The palace is a model for the developed Arab -Islamic architecture, so its planning, the pattern of its construction and its decorations in stone, marble, wood and metal represents a picture of the buildings of Damascus in the Ottoman era, and some historians are attributed to the fact that there is a wing in the palace dating back to previous covenants before Minister Asaad builds the current palace, and falls This old wing in the southeastern corner of the palace. The palace has a huge gate, including a small door called Bab Khokha. The Al -Azm Palace was restored in 1954 to become one of the most beautiful and wonderful palaces and models of Damascene architecture, and it turned into a museum of popular traditions, and the palace was restored in all its internal and external sections and its halls, and many halls were equipped to display many customs and traditions and represent Syrian folklore. The Lebanese historian and poet Issa Iskandar Maalouf presents in this book an accurate description of the state of the palace after the completion of its construction, as well as the stages of its construction, the date that it lives with its construction and some texts that were written with water of gold on its walls.