{"id":6244,"date":"2025-08-03T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/burhan-heritage-souk-or-burhan-historical-market\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:53:16","slug":"burhan-heritage-souk-or-burhan-historical-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/burhan-heritage-souk-or-burhan-historical-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Burhan Heritage Souk (or Burhan Historical Market)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating back to the 14th century, the oldest market in the city stretches 180 meters south of the historic waterwheels (Nawaoir). Its vaulted wooden roof, supported by semi-pointed basalt arches, speaks to centuries of commerce.<br \/>\nIn 2019, the municipality undertook a significant restoration, replacing the modern metal sheets with traditional Mamluk-era roof tiles and unifying the shop facades. Today, this vibrant market is home to traditional spice and Homsi soap merchants, serving as a vital hub that is breathing new economic life into the heart of the historic city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating back to the 14th century, the oldest market in the city stretches 180 meters south of the historic waterwheels (Nawaoir). Its vaulted wooden roof, supported by semi-pointed basalt arches, speaks to centuries of commerce. In 2019, the municipality undertook a significant restoration, replacing the modern metal sheets with traditional Mamluk-era roof tiles and unifying the shop facades. Today, this vibrant market is home to traditional spice and Homsi soap merchants, serving as a vital hub that is breathing new economic life into the heart of the historic city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,345],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-6244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hama","category-religious-monuments-hama","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}