حمص _ دراسة وثائقية ١٨٤٠ - ١٩١٨ ه ، كيف كانت حمص في تلك الحقبة ٧_a .. كتاب حمص

* The street that begins, after the end of the Sarmayatiya market) before the Great Al-Nuri Mosque (the roof), passing in front of Hammam Al-Pasha and the Sphinx, and was called by the French photographer: Hammam Al-Pasha Street, and the public used to call it (Al-Tarouq, his broad uprightness), and when it ends after it passes the Banya neighborhood ( 1) About fifty meters long, branching into two branches:

The first: It continues its direction towards the east, passing the Syriac Orthodox Church, the area of ​​Qasr al-Sheikh, then Hammam al-Sarraj, and at the end of Al-Warsha Street, it branches into two branches, the first facing Qibla until it reaches Al-Assati Mosque, and the second to the north until it meets Al-Zahrawi Street. After the workshop, it continues to head east until the Qasim al-Atassi Mosque, as the Endowments called it, where it also branches into two branches. The first goes north until it reaches Bab Tadmur, and the second heads south, passing by (Maralyan Church), where it reaches Bab al-Duraib, which is its extension between Hammam al-Sarraj and the Qas Mosque. Al-Atas is the border between the Bab al-Duraib neighborhood in the south and the Bab Tadmur neighborhood in the north.

The second branch: from Al-Tarouk Al-Areed Street: It heads towards the southeast, passing by Zawiyat Al-Sheikh. Saad al-Din al-Jibawi. The French photographer mentions Al-Farn as (Saad Al-Din Street) until the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Alley junction in the Al-Sibai neighborhood, and then between the aforementioned junction and the Dhu Al-Kalaa Al-Himyari Mosque junction, the French photographer is called (Catholic Church Street), then the street continues towards the south-east until it reaches To (Salibaqa Al-Ghafila, and here it has no name according to the picture, and after it passes the aforementioned Saliba by about (150) meters, it deviates towards the east until it reaches Bab Al-Darib, and in that area it is called (Al-Madentine Street) because of the presence of the Abu War Mosque near the Hanbali Mosque. The common people call the camp itself: (Taht al-Madentain).

* The street that starts from Bab al-Turkman, northwest of the citadel, and heads toward the northeast until it reaches Ali al-Jammas Mosque, which is the Mustafa al-Husseini Mosque, then heads toward the east, and after crossing about a hundred meters, it converges with the street coming from Bab al-Sbaa’ and going to Abu Lubada Mosque in Bani al-Siba’i Quarters. Then it continues its direction towards the east, and after a slight bend, it continues towards the east and passes by the Turkmen Mosque - Al-Nakhla Mosque: Al-Omari Mosque. After crossing it by fifty meters, a branch of it goes towards the north-east until it reaches Ras Al-Muqaisla and from there to the (Dhu Al-Kalaa) Mosque.

* As for the original street, it continues towards the east, and this area was called: “Bani al-Baghal” alley, because the Bani al-Baghal had their center on it there (1), and according to the modern pictures of the city, it is a continuation of Al-Husseini Street. After passing through Saliba al-Ghufaila, it intersects at the Sheikh Mosque. Complete with the street coming from the corner of Sheikh Saad al-Din, to the area (under the two cities), then Bab al-Darib, and beyond. To cross this street, it continues to move towards the east until it reaches al-Assati, passing by the (Omar al-Mabalt) Mosque.

To the east of the Abu Labada Mosque, Al-Malik Al-Majah Street begins, which heads towards the east until it reaches Ras Al-Muqaisla, where it branches into two branches: the first towards the south-east until it reaches Saliba (Al-Ghafila), and the second towards the east until it passes the (Dhu Al-Kalaa) Mosque and crosses the Street. The Catholic Church was divided into two branches through the construction of the Ghassaniyah Official Secondary School for Girls (1).

The first branch: It passes between Al-Ghassaniya High School for Boys and the Jamal Al-Din Mosque, heading towards the east until it reaches Hammam Al-Masdi, then it turns towards the east until it intersects with Al-Nabul Street at the present time and is called: the modern city plan (Al-Mazni Street).

The second branch: It passes through the front façade of the Ghassaniyah Official Secondary School for Girls in a north-easterly direction, and at approximately its middle, it is separated from it by a side street leading to the Greek Orthodox (Forty Martyrs Church) and ends at Ras Al-Mustah (2). As for the origin, it continues its direction until it meets Al-Warsha Street to the east of the (Umm) Synagogue. Al-Zanar) for the Syriac Orthodox after it passes the (Abu Al-Fadael) Mosque and then the (Qasr Al-Sheikh) neighborhood.

There is no doubt that the longest street that was outside the wall was Al-Hamidiyah Street, which connects Bab Al-Souq Square with Bab Tadmur. The streets of Bab Tadmur neighborhood and Al-Fakhoura neighborhood are now erected on it from the south, and the streets of Al-Hamidiyah neighborhood, which connects it to Wadi Al-Sayeh, descend from it to the north.

One of the streets linking the west of the city to its center is Bab Hud Street. It started from Bab Hud and headed towards the east until it ended with Al-Nahhas Market, and connected it to the Arbaeen Mosque area. To the north of it are two alleys, the first located at its beginning near Khan Al-Ashr and the other in its last third.

From Bab al-Masdoud, a road begins heading towards the east and then bends towards the north at the (Dahiya al-Kalbi) Mosque or (Al-Tahya Mosque) as the public pronounces it. It continues towards the north, passing by the (Muhammad al-Baqa’i) Mosque, and when it meets Bab Hood Street, the (Al-Tawbah) Mosque rises on the side. The western side of the road, and it branches off from it, after the Dahiya Mosque at 150 metres, a road heading east for a short distance, where the golden pigeons used to stand. Then it continues its journey until the plain of Al-Zawiya, where there is a mosque (Al-Zawiya), then it continues its path with multiple bends until the Hashish market. Branching off from the original street between the Dahiya Mosque and the Tawbah Mosque are narrow alleys heading west and reaching the area of ​​the western city wall, and one of them connects to the Abdullah bin Masoud Mosque in Bab Hud.

2 - Streets extending from south to north:

They were few and most of them overlapped with the streets extending from west to east, as we saw in the previous paragraph. The most important of them is the street that started from Bab al-Sbaa’ in the southern wall of the citadel, heading north until it intersects with Al-Husseini Street. Its name became Ibrahim Hanano, according to the city’s modern photographer, and after the Abu Labada Mosque, its name became (Al-Mansour Street), and it constituted the dividing line between the Bani neighborhood and the Bani neighborhood. The cave appears from the west, then passes through the aforementioned neighborhood until the hashish market, Al-Sagha Street, and the textiles until the roof at the front door of the Al-Kabir Mosque.

G - Sibattha:

And its singular is (sibat). Language dictionaries mention it as (Sabat), plural of Swabit and Sabat: a shed between two houses with an open road underneath it. Al-Asadiyya believes, in his encyclopedia, that it is taken from the Persian (Saya), which means shade, protection, and refuge, and (Bush), which means clothing. They want shelter to protect clothes from the rain.

Al-Sibat provides the following services: providing shade for those who seek shade in the summer, protection from rain in the winter, and access to the neighboring house without passing through the alley, if the two houses are owned by one owner, which they often are.

In Homs, I found most of the Sibats next to the houses of large families, such as the Sibat of Beit al-Jandali to the east of the Hanbali Mosque in the Bab al-Duraib neighborhood, the Sibat of Beit al-Qadi, who are a branch of the Rifa’iyya, at the Wahshi Mosque, and Thuban in Bab al-Duraib and the Sibat of Beit al-Durubi to the east of the Sheikh Kamel Mosque. And Sibat Al-Droubi also lives in Sulaibah Al-Ghafila. He intended a few years ago to establish a school in the house next to it, to the west, which is now the Seville School. Sibat (the soldier’s house) in the Al-Fakhoura neighborhood near the shrine of the Sphinx, Sibat, the writer’s house in the back of the cave, Sibat, the Sufi’s house, and Sibat al-Tarjuman, and it was at the house of Yahya al-Tarjuman in Bab Hud, west of the Qamim of Hammam al-Jadid. The port of the gatekeeper’s house when they entered the south of the Abu Dhar al-Ghafari Mosque in Bab Tadmur, and a small port with no name that led from Bustan al-Diwan Street to Jamal al-Din Street near Hammam al-Masdi, and the residents of Mahalla remember it only as al-Sibat. Sibat (the winery), Al-A’sha Street, or Bonsu Alley, which overlooked Al-Quwatli Street from the north, was demolished last year to implement the plan for the heart of modern Homs / 1991 AD.

There are two Sibat Lal al-Anasi: the first was located to the south of Bab al-Masdud and near the Mufti’s house, and Sibat al-Mufti leaves me, and the other is in the Zawiya neighborhood, its plain connects to the hashish market to the north of Tallet al-Hajara (1) and most of