Damascus
تُعدّ التكية السليمية أول مبنى عثماني في دمشق. أمر السلطان سليم الأول ببنائها عام 1518 بعد انتزاع سوريا من المماليك، إلى جانب مسجد جديد وقبر تعلوه قبة فوق قبر…
The Salimiyyah Takiyya is counted as the first Ottoman building in Damascus. Sultan Selim I ordered it in 1518 after taking Syria from the Mamluks, together with a new mosque and a domed tomb over the grave of the great Sufi master Muhyi al-Din ibn Arabi on the slopes of Qasiyun. A takiyya was a charitable kitchen and lodge where the poor, students and travellers were fed and housed. The building stands opposite the Ibn Arabi Mosque in the busy Souq al-Jum'ah of al-Salihiyyah.