When you set foot in this market in particular, you feel as if you are living in the Mamluk era already, as it is surrounded by ancient buildings, narrow lanes, and small shops with their small wooden doors, domes scattered throughout the ancient market, and the sunbeams that caress your eyes when touching the copper utensils; There is a strong interdependence with its golden threads between the market and its goods. What makes its visitors feel great pleasure while walking inside the market and buying the largest amount of its distinctive goods.

Khan al-Khalili is more than 600 years old. It is considered one of the oldest markets in the Arab world and the Middle East. The ancient historian al-Maqrizi described it, saying, “The khan is a large square building surrounding a courtyard resembling a agency in its design. The ground floor includes shops.” The upper floor contains stores and residences. It was named after the great merchant “Sharif al-Khalili” during the era of Sultan Barquq in the year 1400 AD.

Arabesque work

The goods of this market are mixed with the spirit of its makers, each piece sold in it competes with the other due to its excessive beauty, most of which are hand-made “handmade”, made by workers who learned the art of sculpture in its various forms at the hands of the sheikhs of their profession, inside the market a carnival of various goods inside the bazaars of the ancient Khan Al-Khalili market, from Clothes, rosaries, small statues, old and new copper utensils, bazaars selling silver only in its attractive forms, others selling gold in its wonderful forms, other bazaars selling precious stones in all their beautiful shapes and types, and not selling wooden goods made of sandalwood, and other goods made by Egyptian hands characteristic.

The neighborhood of Khan al-Khalili and its market was and still is a source of inspiration for many Egyptian artists and creators, and we do not miss mentioning one of Egypt’s most prominent writers, “Naguib Mahfouz”, who wrote his famous novel “Khan al-Khalili”; Whoever goes to the Khan al-Khalili market is always looking for valuables.

Pharaonic statues

Khan Al-Khalily.

Silver artifacts