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{{Short description|Market in Gaza Strip, Palestine}}
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The '''Gold Market''' ({{langx|ar|سوق الذهب}} ''Souk ad-Dahab''; also known as the '''Qissariya Market''', {{langx|ar|سوق القيسارية}} ''Souk al-Qissariya'') is a narrow covered passageway located in the old quarter of [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Palestine]]; it is both a center for trading and buying gold, and location for foreign exchange.<ref name="RG">Jacobs, 1998, p.454.</ref> The Market lies along the southern edge of the [[Great Mosque of Gaza]],<ref name="LP">[http://www.lonelyplanet.com/israel-and-the-palestinian-territories/the-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/gaza-city/sights/461208 Gold Market Review] Lonelyplanet.</ref> beside the main [[Omar Mukhtar Street]]. The Market is configured with a pointed and vaulted roof above the central road, which is lined on both sides by small shops that are themselves roofed by the cross vaults of the covered central road.<ref>[http://www.mideasttravelling.net/palestine/gaza/gaza_culture.htm Travel in Gaza] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823050026/http://www.mideasttravelling.net/palestine/gaza/gaza_culture.htm |date=August 23, 2013 }} MidEastTraveling.</ref>

==History==
Gazan judge Sheikh Shams ad-Din al-Himsi ordered the construction of the Gold Market in 1476 CE during the [[Mamluk Sultanate]]. The Market originally formed a part of a much larger covered market, but most of the area was destroyed by the [[British Army]] during [[World War I]].<ref name="LP"/>

Throughout most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the market was visited mostly by men and women engaged to be married, to pick out gold jewellery, and by mothers-in-law to purchase gifts for their daughters-in-law. However, because of food shortages arising in Gaza from the [[Israel]]i [[blockade of the Gaza Strip]], the Gold Market presently is used chiefly by elderly Gazans selling family heirlooms to raise cash.<ref name="LP"/>

The market underwent a conservation programme between 2020 and 2023.<ref>{{citation |title=The Catastrophic state of Gaza’s cultural heritage under the deliberate Israeli bombings: Case of Souk Al-Qaisariyya |url=https://palestine.icomos.org/reports/urgent-heritage-alert-1-27-august-2024/ |publisher=ICOMOS Palestine |date=27 August 2024 |page=2 |accessdate=13 February 2025}}</ref>

The market was destroyed on December 7th, 2023, by an Israeli air strike on the adjacent [[Great Omari Mosque]].<ref name="LG">{{Cite web |last=Estrin |first=Daniel |date=9 December 2023 |title=Israeli strike leaves Gaza's oldest mosque in ruins |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/12/09/1218384968/mosque-gaza-omari-israel-hamas-war |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319212442/https://www.npr.org/2023/12/09/1218384968/mosque-gaza-omari-israel-hamas-war |archive-date=19 March 2024 |access-date=26 June 2024 |website=NPR}}</ref><ref name="DP">{{Cite news |date=11 January 2024 |title=Destruction of the Palestinian cultural heritage of Gaza – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/jan/11/palestinian-cultural-heritage-gaza-destruction-in-pictures |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240305200812/https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/jan/11/palestinian-cultural-heritage-gaza-destruction-in-pictures |archive-date=5 March 2024 |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=the Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{Citation|title=Israel and the Palestinian territories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXoY2vCZ5AEC&dq=Omar+Mukhtar+Street+Gaza&pg=RA5-PA453|first1=Daniel|last1=Jacobs|year=1998|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-248-0}}
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==External links==
*[https://www-mogaza-org.translate.goog/cultural-centers/fonoon/72177720323555476?_x_tr_sl=ar&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_sch=http Photo album of recovery efforts at the Gold Market]
* [https://gazahistoire.hypotheses.org/2142 Marché al-Qaysāriyya (Souk al-Qissariya, marché de l’or)] (in French), part of the Gaza, inventaire d’un patrimoine bombardé

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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Gaza City]]
[[Category:Mamluk architecture in Palestine]]
[[Category:Souqs]]
[[Category:Gold]]
[[Category:Daraj Quarter]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war]]

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