Paris Square (Haifa)

The Hamra Square was a public space created in Haifa during the Ottoman period.

[2] The buildings were designed in the International Style with Tubzeh (split face) and Musamsam (light chiseled) stone cladding.

The result: two spectacular three-story and five-story blocks on the corners that defiine Eliyahu Hanavi St., surrounded on both sides by a portico and comerece.

[3] In 1954, when the Israeli government commissioned the Carmelit funicular subway system from a French company, it decided to rename the area to Paris Square as a friendly gesture to the French.

[5] In 2011, the square was renovated,[5] and its reopening ceremony was attended by the mayor of Paris at the time, Bertrand Delanoë.

View of the St. Elias Carmelite Church in Paris Square, Haifa.
View of the Carmelite Compound.