The Blacksmiths’ Market of Mosul: A Craft in Continuity
Fourteen Centuries of Metalwork in a Living Urban Heritage Site
In the heart of Mosul's Old City, on the western bank of the Tigris River, sits one of Iraq's oldest functioning marketplaces: Sūq al-Ḥaddādīn, the Blacksmiths' Market. Though modest, the market embodies one of the city's longest unbroken artisanal traditions, linking past and present through the per…
