Beit Achiqbash
| Beit Achiqbash | |
|---|---|
 Achibache House and Courtyard in Aleppo | |
| Location | Al-Jdayde, Aleppo, Syria |
| Coordinates | 36°12′21.79″N 37°09′23.69″E / 36.2060528°N 37.1565806°E |
| Built | 1757 |
| Governing body | DGAM Syria |
  Location of Beit Achiqbash in Aleppo | |
Beit Achiqbash (AR: بيت أجقباش في الجديدة; Achikbache House) is an old Aleppine courtyard mansion built in 1757 CE by Qarah Ali, a wealthy Christian merchant.[1][2] It is one of a number of historic buildings found in the Al-Jdayde Christian quarter of Aleppo.[3] A Turk named Ashiqbash later bought the house.[2]
The house is famous for its courtyard, which is extravagantly decorated in a Mamluk-Rococo style. The building was turned into a museum in 1973 and restored in the 1980s. It is well known for the fine carved ornaments on its courtyard elevations.[4] Its style is said to be greatly influenced by Baroque decorative traditions.[5]
It is the home of the Popular Traditions Museum with its collection of fine decorations of Aleppine art and artefacts of past lives.[6]
The building, like much of Aleppo's old city,[7] has suffered catastrophic damage and looting during the fighting by combatant forces in Syria's civil war.[8][9]
Gallery
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Beit Ajikbash Musuem in Aleppo (2010) -
Interior of Beit Ajikbash in Aleppo -
Beit Ajikbash Courtyard (2010) -
Aleppo's Popular Traditions Museum -
Beit Ajikbash Iwan (2010) -
Beit Ajikbash Iwan(2016)
See also
- Ancient City of Aleppo
- Jdeideh (Aleppo)
- Archnet MIT Documentation Center Document Building Style: Ottoman
- Aga Khan Documentation Center Bayt Ajikbash Archive
References
- ^ Aga Khan Documentation Center available on http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=4806 Accessed 2017-01-01.
- ^ a b UNESCO (August 17 - 31, 2016). [en.unesco.org/syrian-observatory/sites/.../ASOR-CHI-Weekly-Report-107-108r2.pdf "ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI): Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq"] (PDF). en.unesco.org. p. 21.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help); Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Darke, Diana (2010-01-01). Syria. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 9781841623146
- ^ MIT Libraries special collections (1983) Aga Khan Visual Archive: Achik Bash House photographs available on http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/75636
- ^ "Aleppo : a history / Ross Burns. - Princeton University Library Catalog". pulsearch.princeton.edu. p. 250. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Burns, Ross (2009-06-30). Monuments of Syria: A Guide. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9780857714893.pp.52-54
- ^ Richard Spencer, Hannah Lucinda-Smith (December 22, 2016). "Struggle begins to restore glory of Aleppo". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of Aleppo(2016) "Photos of Damage of Traditional Art Museum, Dar Ghazaleh, and Jdaideh in old Aleppo", Available on http://www.dgam.gov.sy/index.php?d=314&id=2159 Published on 2016-12-22, Accessed 2017-01-01
- ^ "Aleppo's famed Old City left 'unrecognisable' by war". Al-Monitor. Available from http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/afp/2016/12/syria-conflict-aleppo-heritage.html 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
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