{
 "id": "building/souq-al-hamidiyya",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "souq-al-hamidiyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "سوق الحميدية",
  "en": "Al-Hamidiyah Souq"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سوق دمشق المغطى المستقيم إلى الجامع الأموي — السوق الرئيسي في أقدم مدينة مأهولة في التاريخ.",
  "en": "Damascus's covered souq running straight to the Umayyad Mosque — the main market of the oldest living city."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "trade-and-finance",
  "architecture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "bazaar",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1338588"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), culture lane; existence/year via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سوق [[place/damascus|دمشق]] المغطى المستقيم من باب النصر إلى ساحة الجامع الأموي؛ تاريخه قديم وسمّي بهذا الاسم في العهد العثماني المتأخر. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "السوق الرئيسي في أقدم مدينة مأهولة في التاريخ؛ يباع فيه اليوم كل شيء من الحرير إلى الآيس كريم. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/souq-al-hamidiyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The covered straight souq of [[place/damascus|Damascus]] from Bab al-Nasr to the square of the Umayyad Mosque; it is old, and took this name in the late Ottoman period. {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "The main market in one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in history; today everything is sold there, from silk to ice cream. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/souq-al-hamidiyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[place/damascus|دمشق]] کا سیدھا ڈھکا ہوا بازار، باب النصر سے جامع اموی کے چوک تک؛ اس کی تاریخ قدیم ہے اور عثمانی دور کے آخر میں اس نام سے موسوم ہوا۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اثر",
     "markdown": "آباد ترین قدیم شہر کا مرکزی بازار؛ آج یہاں ریشم سے لے کر آئس کریم تک ہر چیز بکتی ہے۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/souq-al-hamidiyya",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/bazaar-tabriz",
  "building/khan-al-khalili",
  "place/chandni-chowk",
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}