
Faith has its own architect, which doesn’t seem to be applicable
everywhere. I have seen elongated minarets that stretched to reach the sky with
no achievement. Without difficulty, in the old city of Damascus minarets hit
even the seventh sky.

El Bzourieh (souk al attarin) in the old pazar of Aleppo.

Damascus at night, from a post card. The
river penetrates the city is Barada.