Gold Market

The Gold Market (Arabic: سوق الذهب Souk ad-Dahab; also known as the Qissariya Market, Arabic: سوق القيسارية Souk al-Qissariya) is a narrow covered passageway located in the old quarter of Gaza, Palestine; it is both a center for trading and buying gold, and location for foreign exchange.

[1] The Market lies along the southern edge of the Great Mosque of Gaza,[2] beside the main Omar Mukhtar Street.

[3] Gazan judge Sheikh Shams ad-Din al-Himsi ordered the construction of the Gold Market in 1476 CE, under Mamluk rule in Palestine.

[2] Throughout most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the market was visited mostly by men and women engaged to be married, to pick out gold jewellery, and by mothers-in-law to purchase gifts for their daughters-in-law.

[4] Destroyed on December 7th, 2023 by an Israeli air strike on the adjacent Great Omari Mosque.