Featured places
Mosques, caravanserais, souks, museums — and why they are worth the walk.
813 Places
Hammam al-Bayada
A Mamluk bath house of 1450 in the Bayada quarter, north-east of the Aleppo Citadel, among the oldest to survive in the city. Ask at the door about hours.
Aleppo · Mamluk
Hammam Bab al-Ahmar
An Ottoman bath house with a lantern dome, 300 metres east of the Aleppo Citadel. Badly damaged in the war, repaired and reopened in 2017. Ask at the door.
Aleppo · Ottoman
The Al-Zahiriyya Madrasa, Aleppo
An Ayyubid madrasa 500 metres south of Bab al-Maqam, begun by al-Zahir Ghazi in 1217. A muqarnas portal, a three-domed prayer hall, a Quran school today.
Aleppo · Ayyubid — the dynasty Saladin founded
The National Library of Aleppo
Founded in 1924, the library stands on Bab al-Faraj square beside the clock tower. The building opened in 1945; it holds 100 thousand books and a hall for 300.
Aleppo · French mandate — founded 1924, building 1939
Aleppo Railway Station (Gare de Bagdad)
Opened in 1912 as the Aleppo stop on the Berlin–Baghdad line, it is the second-oldest station in Syria. The stone facade, the ticket hall and the trains today.
Aleppo · Late Ottoman
The National Evangelical Church of Aleppo
The church of Aleppo’s Arabic-speaking Protestant congregation. Its old building in Jdeideh was destroyed in 2012; the new one in Villat opened in 2019.
Aleppo · Republican era
The Sharaf Mosque, Aleppo
A Mamluk mosque in the Abd al-Hayy quarter of Jdayde. The building you see is from the reign of Qansuh al-Ghuri; the gravestones in its court are older.
Aleppo · Mamluk, under sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri
The Virgin Mary Greek Catholic Cathedral, Aleppo
The Melkite Greek Catholic cathedral in Jdeideh, consecrated in March 1843. It was paid for with donated jewellery, and its restoration finished in 2019.
Aleppo · Ottoman
The Maronite Cathedral of Saint Elijah, Aleppo
The Maronite cathedral on Farhat Square in Jdeideh, built in 1873. Its dome was rebuilt in concrete in 1914, and it reopened after repairs in July 2020.
Aleppo · Ottoman
The Church of Our Lady of Montligeon, Aleppo
A Maronite church in Hamidiyah named after a French village. It opened on 1 October 1909, was reconsecrated in 1998, and lost its wooden ceiling in the war.
Aleppo · Late Ottoman
The Cathedral of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Aleppo
The Syriac Orthodox cathedral in Sulaymaniyah opened in 1926. Its dome and belfry were added in 1965, and old oil panels cover the inside of the dome.
Aleppo · French Mandate
Aleppo Public Park
A 17-hectare hexagonal park in the middle of the city, laid out in 1949. Statues, dancing fountains and the Queiq river cutting straight across it. Free entry.
Aleppo · 1949
