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Bab al-Maqam
بَاب الْمَقَام
Bab al-Maqam in 2010
Alternative names	Gate of Maqam
General information
Status	restored
Type	City gate
Architectural style	Islamic architecture
Town or city	Aleppo
Country	Syria
Completed	1230
Owner	Al-Aziz Muhammad
Known for	One of the 9 main gates of the ancient city walls of Aleppo

Bab al-Maqam (Arabic: بَاب الْمَقَام, romanized: Bāb al-Maqām), meaning the Gate of Maqam is one of the Gates of Aleppo.

The 13th century structure was built by al-Aziz Muhammad on the road that connected the Maqamat with the Citadel.

Deviations in its design from the majority of medieval Syrian gates suggest that its function was ceremonial rather than military.

In Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo (1997), Yasser Tabbaa details some of these differences, noting that they reinforce the possibility that the gate had primarily a religious and political function, serving as homage to Abraham and contrasting with the eastern shrines of Mashhad al-Dikka and Mashhad al-Husayn.

References

1. ^ "Bab al-Maqam". Archnet. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
2. Tabbaa, Yasser, 1997, Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo, The Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 21.

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