Al-Salihiyah () is a

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and neighborhood of

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. It lies to the northwest of the old walled city of Damascus and about southeast of the

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, at the foot of

Mount Qasioun Mount Qasioun () is a mountain overlooking the city of Damascus, Syria. It has a range of restaurants, from which the whole city can be viewed. Due to its high elevation, several communications and broadcasting networks constructed relay stat ...

. The quarter is famous as a resting place of venerated Islamic scholars, such as the mystic Sufi scholar and philosopher

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and the

Hanabila Mosque The Hanabila Mosque or Darwish Pasha Mosque (; also called Muzaffari Mosque), is an early Ayyubid-era mosque in Damascus, Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and th ...

. Further to the south, it also houses the

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building.

Neighborhoods

Abu Jarash Abu Jarash () is a neighborhood and district of the al-Salihiyah municipality of Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 12,798 in the 2004 census. In the 1936 French Mandate census, Abu Jarash had a population of 9,600, all Muslims. The neighbor ...

(pop. 12,798) *Al-Madaris (pop. 12,731) *Al-Mazra'a (pop. 6,818) *Qasyoun (pop. 22,017) *Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din (pop. 11,502) *Ash-Shuhada (pop. 6,437)

References

Neighborhoods of Damascus {{DamascusSY-geo-stub