THE MUSLIM QUARTER

This is the largest quarter in the Old City, home to almost 20,000 Muslims, about ten times the population of any other quarter.

The quarter is famous for its shuk (open marketplace), and its madrasas (Muslim schools). It also has many beautiful fountains and public buildings, many of them built by Suleiman the Magnificent.

Some Christians live along the Via Dolorosa in the Muslim Quarter. Jews used to live here – in fact this used to be called the Jewish Quarter, but most Jews moved out during the anti-Jewish riots in the 1920s.

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