The structure dates from the 17th or early 18th century. This house with a three-winged hall (qāʿa) was refurbished at the end of the first half of the 19th C. and then once again around 1870. Ibrāhīm Pāša is said to have stayed in what later became Bayt Murād al-Quwwatli in Sīdi ʿAmūd (al-Ḥarīqa). A court record documents the purchase of a large property of several courtyards in Sīdi ʿAmūd for 1000 Gold Lira in the year 1283/1866 by the siblings Fāṭima, Ruqīyya, ʿAbd al-Ġani, and Murād al-Quwwatli. The house, which became known as the domicile of Murād ʾAfandi ibn Muḥammad al-Quwwatli (d. 1326/1908), was visited by numerous personalities in the 19th C.
Significance: very important.
Condition of the building: destroyed by French bombardment in 1925.
Stefan Weber. Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation 1808-1918. Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus V 2009 (Vol. II p. 543).
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