The Damascus Room is an early eighteenth-century residential reception chamber (qa'a) from Damascus, a provincial capital of the Ottoman empire.
By the eighteenth century, Damascus was not only one of the most prosperous commercial cities in the empire, but a center of Islamic scholarship and worship.
Courtyard houses traditionally accommodated an extended family, often consisting of three or more generations, as well as domestic servants.
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