Beit Achiqbash

Beit Achiqbash
Achibache House and Courtyard in Aleppo
Location Al-Jdayde, Aleppo, Syria
Coordinates 36°12′21.79″N 37°09′23.69″E / 36.2060528°N 37.1565806°E / 36.2060528; 37.1565806Coordinates: 36°12′21.79″N 37°09′23.69″E / 36.2060528°N 37.1565806°E / 36.2060528; 37.1565806
Built 1757
Governing body DGAM Syria
Location of Beit Achiqbash in Aleppo

Beit Achiqbash (AR: بيت أجقباش في الجديدة; Achikbache House) is an old Aleppine courtyard mansion built in 1757 CE by Qarah Ali, a wealthy Christian merchant.[1][2] It is one of a number of historic buildings found in the Al-Jdayde Christian quarter of Aleppo.[3] A Turk named Ashiqbash later bought the house.[2]

The house is famous for its courtyard, which is extravagantly decorated in a Mamluk-Rococo style. The building was turned into a museum in 1973 and restored in the 1980s. It is well known for the fine carved ornaments on its courtyard elevations.[4] Its style is said to be greatly influenced by Baroque decorative traditions.[5]

It is the home of the Popular Traditions Museum with its collection of fine decorations of Aleppine art and artefacts of past lives.[6][7]

The building, like much of Aleppo's old city,[8] has suffered catastrophic damage and looting during the fighting by combatant forces in Syria's civil war.[9][10]

A survey of Beit Achiqbash was completed in November 2017 by the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums and UNESCO to facilitate the emergency consolidation of its structure.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aga Khan Documentation Center available on http://www.archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=4806 Accessed 2017-01-01.
  2. 1 2 UNESCO (17 August 2016). [en.unesco.org/syrian-observatory/sites/.../ASOR-CHI-Weekly-Report-107-108r2.pdf "ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (CHI): Planning for Safeguarding Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq"] Check |url= value (help) (PDF). en.unesco.org. p. 21.
  3. ↑ Darke, Diana (2010-01-01). Syria. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 9781841623146
  4. ↑ MIT Libraries special collections (1983) Aga Khan Visual Archive: Achik Bash House photographs available on http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/75636
  5. ↑ "Aleppo : a history / Ross Burns. - Princeton University Library Catalog". pulsearch.princeton.edu. p. 250. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  6. ↑ Burns, Ross (2009-06-30). Monuments of Syria: A Guide. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9780857714893.pp.52-54
  7. ↑ "Bayt Ajikbash | Archnet". archnet.org. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  8. ↑ Richard Spencer, Hannah Lucinda-Smith (December 22, 2016). "Struggle begins to restore glory of Aleppo". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
  9. ↑ Directorate of Antiquities and Museums of Aleppo(2016) "Photos of Damage of Traditional Art Museum, Dar Ghazaleh, and Jdaideh in old Aleppo", Available on http://www.dgam.gov.sy/index.php?d=314&id=2159 Published on 2016-12-22, Accessed 2017-01-01
  10. ↑ "Aleppo's famed Old City left 'unrecognisable' by war". Al-Monitor. Available from http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/afp/2016/12/syria-conflict-aleppo-heritage.html 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  11. ↑ Art Graphique & Patrimoine (2017-11-28), Relevé et nuage de points de Beit Ghazaleh, Alep - Syrie, retrieved 2018-02-12
  12. ↑ "Beit Ghazaleh, Alep - Syria". AGP. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
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