Al - Bayaa’ (
Arabic
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: البياع) is a lower-middle-class neighborhood in the
Al Rashid district in western
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
, Iraq, along the
Baghdad Airport Road
The Baghdad Airport Road is a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) stretch of highway in Baghdad, Iraq linking the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area at the centre of Baghdad, to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). It also links different parts of Bagh ...
.
Al-A'amel is to the west and
Al-Saydiya
Al-Saydiya ( ar, السيدية) is a neighborhood in the Al Rashid district of southwestern Baghdad, Iraq. Baiyaa is to the north and Dora to the east.
A once middle-class district, much of Al-Saydiya was built within the last three decades on ...
to the south.
First known as Al-Bayaa City, it was named after and built by (Haj) Ali Al-Bayaa. A notable socialite, land owner and famous Iraqi businessman who, in the 1950s, envisioned a place in Iraq that could spearhead its drive towards modernity and inspire
future generations
Future generations are cohorts of hypothetical people not yet born. Future generations are contrasted with current and past generations, and evoked in order to encourage thinking about intergenerational equity. The moral patienthood of future ge ...
to come. Today it is home to thousands of people.
Some of its most notable landmarks are:
*Street 20, which at the time of inception was renowned for its modern appearance and architecture. Today it remains an active commercial hub.
*Grid Structured Layout: Unlike other neighborhoods in the region, Al-Bayaa was built to mimic a grid structure. Much like other modern cities like New York. At the time, travelers were taken by this new form of innovative street layout.
*Ali Al-Bayaa Mosque: named after the city's founder, still serves as one of Iraq's most active places of worship. So many are usually in attendance that visitors spill over to the streets surrounding the mosque.
*The Blessed Keeper's Church: A Chaldean Christian Place of worship and congregation.
Al-Bayaa is a plural neighborhood, home to various ethnic sects of Iraqi society. Relative to other neighborhoods, it remained somewhat calm during the Iraq War, but many stores have closed and many residents from Al-Bayaa fled the neighborhood in May 2007 as violence increased throughout the country.
References
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Neighborhoods in Baghdad
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