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Jerusalem: Cotton Market (1940s photo)
Jerusalem: Cotton Market (DAP/iaa)
The cotton market or bazaar (Suq al-Qattanin) was built by the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad in 1337-1338 to replace an older building. It is located just west of the Haram esh Sharif or Temple Mount, through a monumental gate called Bab al Qattanin
This photo of the Cotton Market, dating from the 1940s, is from the 1919-1948 collection of the Palestine Deptartment of Antiquities (DAP), now stored at the Scientific Archive at the Israel Antiquities Institute (www.iaa-archives.org).
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