Places
Search sacred sites, historic landmarks, schools, bookstores, and resting places across Syria.
7 places
al-Firdaws Madrasa
مدرسة الفردوس
The Firdaws Madrasa (1235), Dayfa Khatun's serene Sufi college of stone courtyards and a famous interlaced-marble mihrab — often called the most beautiful building of Ayyubid Syria.
al-Halawiyya Madrasa
مدرسة الحلوية
The Halawiyya Madrasa, Aleppo's chief school of Hanafi law, built into the former cathedral of St Helena; Nur al-Din added its superb carved mihrab.
al-Hashimiyya Madrasa
المدرسة الهاشمية
Aleppo madrasa endowed by the Hashimi family for the teaching of law and Qur'an.
al-Kamiliyya Madrasa
المدرسة الكاملية
Ayyubid-era madrasa of Aleppo named for its founder's royal patron al-Malik al-Kamil.
al-Sha'baniyya Madrasa
المدرسة الشعبانية
Ottoman madrasa of 1677 with a famous carved portal, for three centuries one of Aleppo's leading houses of learning and lately the school of Shaykh Abdullah Siraj al-Din.
al-Zahiriyya Madrasa
المدرسة الظاهرية
Ayyubid madrasa founded by al-Malik al-Zahir Ghazi, Saladin's son and ruler of Aleppo, who is buried there.
Dar al-Ifta of Aleppo
دار الإفتاء بحلب
Seat of Aleppo's mufti, the office issuing the city's religious rulings since Ottoman times.