Nur al-Din Bimaristan ( ar, البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval ''
bimaristan
A bimaristan (; ), also known as ''dar al-shifa'' (also ''darüşşifa'' in Turkish) or simply maristan, is a hospital in the historic Islamic world.
Etymology
''Bimaristan'' is a Persian word ( ''bīmārestān'') meaning "hospital", with '' ...
'' ("hospital") in
Damascus
)), is an adjective which means "spacious".
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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It is located in the
al-Hariqa Al-Hariqa ( ar, الحريقة) is a neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. It lies inside the walls of the old city south of the Citadel of Damascus
The Citadel of Damascus ( ar, قلعة دمشق, Qalʿat Dimašq) is a large medieval fortified palac ...
quarter in the old walled city, to the southwest of the
Umayyad Mosque. It was built and named after the
Zengid Sultan
Nur ad-Din in 1154, and later on an extension was added to the main building in 1242 by a physician Badr al-Din.
It was restored in 1975 and now houses the ''Museum of Medicine and Science in the Arab World''.
Constructed in two phases the first construction phase was commissioned by Nur al-Din in 1154 CE and the second phase was about 90 years later and was commissioned by a physician, Badr al-Din, circa 1242 CE. It was renovated in 1975 and a small museum was established here.
See also
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Nur al-Din Madrasa
References
External links
Nur al-Din Bimaristan at archnet.org
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Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus
Museums in Syria
Bimaristans
Medical museums
Science museums
Hospitals in Syria
Hospitals established in the 12th century
1154 establishments in Asia
Medieval Syria
Zengid architecture