Middle East
Syria
Damascus Governorate

Cemetery Bab as-Saghir

Bab al-Saghir Cemetery is an Islamic in , . It is about 200 meters to the southwest of the gate.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: graveyard in Syria
  • Also known as: “al-Bāb al-Ṣaghīr Cemetery” and “Bab al-Saghir Cemetery”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Umayyad Mosque and Bab Al Saghir.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of , the capital of , is one of the largest and oldest in the world. is situated 1 km north of Cemetery Bab as-Saghir.

City gate
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus, . It has qubūr on either side of the road, and is located in the Dimashq Neighborhood, southwest of the . is situated 390 metres northeast of Cemetery Bab as-Saghir.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Murad Pasha Mosque is an early Ottoman-era Sufi and mausoleum in , , located in the Suwayqa sector of the quarter. The mosque was erected and named after Murad Pasha, who served as the Ottoman governor of Damascus between 1568-1569. is situated 250 metres west of Cemetery Bab as-Saghir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Damascus and Al Midan.

Photo: علي الصمادي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital and largest city of . A city of immense historical importance, was the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age.

Town
is a neighbourhood and municipality in , , south of the old walled city and near the modern city centre. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 177,456.

Town
Photo: Raghad.kabtool, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality of , , due north of the Old Damascus. It was the first part of Damascus to be built outside the city walls in the 13th century.

Cemetery Bab as-Saghir

Latitude
33.5036° or 33° 30′ 13″ north
Longitude
36.30403° or 36° 18′ 15″ east
Open location code
8G5RG833+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29263292
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Wiki­data ID
Q96372940
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Cemetery Bab as-Saghir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة الباب الصغير”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة باب الصغير”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bab əs-Səğir qəbiristanlığı”
  • Catalan: “al-Bab as-Saghir”
  • Catalan: “Porta Petita”
  • Danish: “Bab al-Saghīr Gravplads”
  • Danish: “Bab al-Saghir”
  • French: “Cimetière Bab as-Saghir”
  • French: “cimetière de Bab al-Saghir”
  • French: “Cimetière de Bab al-Saghir”
  • Galician: “cemiterio de Bab al-Saghir”
  • German: “Bab-al-Saghir-Friedhof”
  • German: “Bab-as-Saghir-Friedhof”
  • German: “Friedhof Bab as-Saghir”
  • Indonesian: “Bab as-Saghir”
  • Japanese: “バーブ・サギール墓地”
  • Malay: “Bab al-Saghir”
  • Persian: “قبرستان باب‌الصغیر”
  • Russian: “Баб ас-Сагир”
  • Spanish: “Cementerio de Bab al-Saghir”
  • Swedish: “Bab al-Saghirs begravningsplats”
  • Tajik: “Бобу-с-сағир”
  • Turkish: “Bab-ı Sağır Mezarlığı”
  • Turkish: “Babü’s Sağir Mezarlığı”
  • Ukrainian: “Баб-ель-Сагір”
  • Urdu: “باب صغیر”
  • Urdu: “مقبرہ باب صغیر”
  • Uzbek: “Bob us-Sagʻir qabristoni”
  • Western Panjabi: “قبرستان باب الصغیر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cemetery Bab as-Saghir”. Photo: Toushiro, Public domain.