Khan Murjan en Baghdad

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  Bookseller Store

  :: 28 May 2023 11:07:12

  The Khan Murjan building consists of two floors. The first, i.e., the ground floor, contains 22 rooms, and the second, i.e., the upper floor, contains 23 rooms. The doors of the ground floor are decorated with (muqarnas), in which the brick projection performs its optimal aesthetic function. It is a series of arched niches from which muqarnas motifs descend. It rests on brackets and friezes that gradually emerge from the wall until it is approximately one meter away from it, and forms a decorated band more than two meters wide and surrounds the lobby on its four sides at a height of four meters. This type of building, which separates the two floors, is considered one of the most important traces of the Art that can be seen in the construction of the khan. On the other hand, the designer of this hall succeeded in lighting it with sunlight, by using the vaulted windows in a beautiful artistic way. The viewer can see parts of the walls of the khan that have turned black, as the occupants used to burn a fire in its courtyard for the purpose of heating in the winter season, and this bad use affected the shape of the building, in general, as well as its impact on nature’s ravages, until it was exposed to ruins. Vandalism and damage, which prompted the General Directorate of Antiquities to completely restore it, and made it a museum of Islamic arts, and called it (the House of Arab Antiquities), so the khan became a destination for tourists and visitors for several decades, but the high level of groundwater in the land of the khan and its surroundings, This led to water flooding this land, and it was no longer fit to be a museum, so it was not part of the Department of Antiquities to move its exhibits, and to carry out an extensive maintenance process for it, during which it succeeded in cementing its floor and walls with cement until the process of groundwater seepage into the ground was controlled. Inside it, then it was exploited during the eighties of the twentieth century, and it was restored, and the building was used as a tourist restaurant, which is visited by tourists and people in general to spend hours in this authentic Baghdadi atmosphere. The Khan is considered one of the landmarks of the heritage city of Baghdad.

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  Fatima Torabi Asgari

  :: 17 April 2023 21:58:54

  It is closed and abandoned. But even the outside showed the inside would be really nice to visit. Pity :(

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  Aiham Alasadi

  :: 05 February 2019 18:11:18

  Used to be one of the best restaurants ever, it's underground , game of thrones theme , and it was built almost 1000 years ago, now it's abandoned due lack of foreign tourists

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  Mustafa Nader

  :: 15 June 2017 15:35:07

  The (Khan Murjan) is a building in the souk of Baghdad, Iraq. The structure was first built in the 14th century

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  Alpha Mike

  :: 21 April 2017 12:11:57

  Historic place. The Khan Murjan ( خان مرجان‎‎) is a building in the souq of Baghdad , Iraq. The structure was first built in the 14th century as a caravanserai, an inn for traveling merchants, whose center was a hall more than 13 metres (43 ft) high.The crenellated arches of brick and perforated windows make this a notable piece of architecture. The building was reputedly in a state of disrepair for over two centuries, with waist-high flood water from the Tigris standing in the famous hallway. By the mid-1980s, the building had been restored and was in use as a restaurant.