Aleppo Room

غرفة حلب

A painted wooden reception room from an Aleppo merchant's house, early 17th century; the oldest preserved Syrian room, in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin.

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A carved and painted wooden reception room from a merchant's house in Aleppo in the early seventeenth century; the oldest surviving traditional room from Syria, held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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islam.museum contributors. “Aleppo Room”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/aleppo-room/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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