www.teshreen.com It is said that he or she who lives in Dimashq Esh- Sham can never leave.
Every place in Dimashq Esh- Sham is a living entity inside the capital city of Aram and the birth place of the oldest human civilizations..
One pre- Islam Arab poet said describing Dimashq Esh- Sham:
It is the moon and the roof when dawnless towns and cities shroud in ice and when night is dead..
Arab thinkers, intellectuals, poets, artists and ordinary people have already made their spiritual garments of Damascus.
Shuhada Square is widely known among Syrian citizens as al Marjeh . The Arabic word Marjeh means (the meadow). It was a vast lawn stretching from the southern edge of Sarouja to al- Takiyyeh al- Suleimanieh on the right bank of Barada river, where Damascenes used to go picnicking, or to welcome new Ottoman Walis (governors).
Tradition says there used to be many springs whose water flowed into the Barada. The monument that stands in the centre of al- Marjeh Square was set up in 1908 A.D. marking the first telephone line between Damascus and Medina, Saudi Arabia, as a replica of the Medina mosque tops the monument. It was created by a handful of Italian artists.
From al- Marjeh Square, it takes no more than ten minutes walk for a visitor to be inside one of the following:
The National Museum of Damascus, al- Takieh Suleimanieh, Sarouja old district, the Hamidieh souq, Damascus citadel, handicrafts souk, Omayyad Mosque or tens of other neighbouring archaeological sites.
Al- Marjeh is one of Damascus prominent land marks. |