The square includes many buildings, markets, departments, government headquarters and neighborhoods where officials such as former Iraqi prime ministers Nuri al-Said and Ja'far al-Askari lived.

[6] British traveler and journalist James Silk Buckingham had visited Baghdad during Ramadan in the early 19th century and described al-Maiden in his second volume of "Travels in Mesopotamia", he noted that "the place of the Maidan never failed to be crowded every night, with people of all classes; and every mode of diversion in use here, singing, dancing and music, with blazing fires, lamps, etc.

"[7] Buckingham had also visited the main mosque of al-Maidan which was the Mosque-Madrasa of al-Ahmadiyya and described it as having a "handsome dome and minaret" and was amazed by its colored tiles and paintings but was disappointed to finding that the inside wasn't special outside of being clean and well lighted.

It is said that due to the small space of its hall, people in the square rented seats to listen to the lady's singing after he had the hotel owners set up loudspeakers.

The area has also become significant for the first sparks of demonstrations, coups, and sit-ins, in addition to its corridors, which were a focus for secret meetings and the beginning of national political activities against various regimes.

[4] Al-Maidan Square is also famous for being the main garage area for the red double-decker buses that were iconic in Iraq and were a unique feature for the country.

The red buses were nicknamed "secretariats" by Iraqis and materialized a spirit of competition between Baghdad and London when it came to public transportation.

The single-nave church has a rectangular floor plan, vaults with four barrel roofs running across the building, with crescent-shaped windows at the side ends, and is oriented northwest-southeast.

The exact age of the souk is not known to any of its workers or pioneers, but the old stories about it indicate that it is one of the oldest markets in al-Rusafa, and they say that it is even older than the Rusafa neighborhoods that were built by the Ottoman governors.

The leader Abd al-Karim Qasim demolished the mosque 1961 during expansion works of the old Ministry of Defense, and it was rebuilt in a new form that still stands today.

[17] After recent events of the Iraq War, al-Maidan Square declined and was described as a "poor courtyard containing only some of those who earn a living through simple work and others who used to frequent it."

It became full of street vendors who blocked the sidewalks, as well as murderers, thieves, drug dealers, harassers, and bandits who attacked passers-by in light of the deteriorating security situation.

[5] Due to the increase of car ownership and the lack of absorption, the square has become extremely overcrowded that the development of road infrastructure became impossible.