Shirazi House is located within the walls of Old Damascus, in the northwest near King Dhaher Hammam, at the intersection of alSabi\u2018 Tuwalla\u2018 with Bab alBarid street. Originally built in the mid18th century, the house incorporates Mamluk-era remains in its structure. The Shirazi family, who migrated to Damascus, owned and renovated it multiple times.<\/p>\n
The ornate wooden ceiling of the Iwan\u2014known as Ajami\u2014exemplifies high Damascene decorative art. Its fa\u00e7ade features a stone mihrab styled after Mamluk mosque niches, made from elegant tri-colored ablaq stone (black, white, and mosaic), accented by polished marble columns topped with Corinthian-style capitals. Above it arches a half-dome with intricate ablaq carvings executed in the \u201cmaj\u2018an\u201d (interlaced) technique.
\nAn ingenious winter-heating pool (sakhana) beneath the courtyard floor exchanges warmth between hot and cold water\u2014a unique feature in local homes, often linked to hammam systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shirazi House is located within the walls of Old Damascus, in the northwest near King Dhaher Hammam, at the intersection of alSabi\u2018 Tuwalla\u2018 with Bab alBarid street. Originally built in the mid18th century, the house incorporates Mamluk-era remains in its structure. The Shirazi family, who migrated to Damascus, owned and renovated it multiple times. The ornate wooden ceiling of the Iwan\u2014known as Ajami\u2014exemplifies high Damascene decorative art. Its fa\u00e7ade features a stone mihrab styled after Mamluk mosque niches, made from elegant tri-colored ablaq stone (black, white, and mosaic), accented by polished marble columns topped with Corinthian-style capitals. Above it arches a half-dome with intricate ablaq carvings executed in the \u201cmaj\u2018an\u201d (interlaced) technique. An ingenious winter-heating pool (sakhana) beneath the courtyard floor exchanges warmth between hot and cold water\u2014a unique feature in local homes, often linked to hammam systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,393],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damascus","category-heritage-houses-damascus","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","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=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}