Khans
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The Khan Sayyed al‑Khalîl
1Khans combine several activities and play different roles, serving as a place of storage and wholesale markets, setting prices for goods, and providing accommodation for merchants and travellers. They can take various forms, the most common being a building organised around an open courtyard. This is the case of the Khan al‑Khalîl which is located in the main street of the souk.
2The courtyard is accessed through a hall 3 m wide and 6 m long which allows one to pass through the depth of the shops facing out onto the souk. The hall is bordered on the east by a small room for the caretaker and on the west by a staircase leading to the upper floor.
3This layout is characteristic of many khans built in commercial districts. Requiring a fairly large land area, they are ensconced in the depth of the urban fabric, behind the shops on the street, so as not to interrupt the continuity of the souks.
4On the ground floor, the courtyard, with a surface area of over 100 m2, is surrounded by shops on three sides, to the west, north and east. The first floor is reserved for hospitality and comprises two parts. A group of seven rooms covered with low barrel vaults occupies the northern part of the courtyard, then extends partially to the west and concludes with a small prayer room topped by a dome. At the rear of the mosque is a cross-vaulted room, a meeting room, preceded by a covered courtyard. Another complex, on the south side, accessible from the staircase in the entrance hall, is comprised of ten rooms located above the shops on the souk, three of which are over the street.
5This khan, currently unoccupied, could, after renovation, host new activities and thus contribute to the enhancement of the architectural heritage of the old town of Hebron.
Figure 16 – Khan al‑Sayyid al‑Khalîl, scale 1:333.


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