Khan Murjan in Baghdad, its history and architecture

Abstract

Are buildings of fields of public buildings that are important in social and economic aspects of the state and city, they are when held in the external roads perform an important function by providing the appropriate place to set up dealers and break caravans and travelers, and her stay in the city makes it a safe place for the establishment of merchants strangers and their goods and taken a market for the supply of goods and merchandise in front of the city's traders, as well as a good place inhabited by workers in the economic field and travelers, travelers, and others. The advantages of urban planning and building of Khan suited to the role which it was created. In Khan Murjan in Baghdad note selection of suitable sites in the town center and markets, scientific and cultural centers, and then retain the building heritage architect Baghdadi goal of a yard intermediate became the khan covered ceiling texture large contracts a huge open the windows for ventilation and lighting, then the existence of compartments and small rooms for the establishment of traders and travelers surround scene in question, help to support and the assignment of these large contracts that cover the landscape of Central as well as having special places for animals and goods carried by caravans and commercial insurance protection, noting the use of construction materials themselves are available in Baghdad, a brick and plaster. We conclude from this study that the building of Khan Murjan had great importance in its time, especially in the economic aspects of the city, as marked by Amara Khan creativity of selected elements of planning and Eve that serve the function of the Khan, as well as the fact that Khan Murjan is a building of rare buildings of the eighth century AH (the the fourteenth century AD) and does not have an all remaining from buildings Abbasid Baghdad, which disappeared because of the harsh conditions experienced by this city, where was left them but little thing, which has made the building of Khan Murjan is of great importance for the inherited urban Baghdadi should care and attention maintained on the basis of scientific and keep its elements into account is where the original characteristics of the old Baghdadi architecture.