The two British businessmen who invented and sold the device are serving seven- and ten-year jail sentences in the U. The street was muted, devoid of its once-familiar hustle.
There was a melancholy to it, reinforced by the emptiness and the many images of the dead or missing, as well as the banners strung across the street urging sacrifice for the nation. The shrine has drawn Shiite fighters from across the Middle East, including Iraq and Lebanon, to defend it.
It was a crisp mid-morning on a Sunday, and the sound of prayers poured out of the open door of an Orthodox church. There, too, there was a banner reflecting loss. It hung from the house of worship, emblazoned with the bearded faces of the two missing bishops, presumed kidnapped in northern Syria in April. There has been no claim of responsibility, no ransom demand, no proof of life.
The bishops are among the thousands who have simply disappeared in this conflict, snatched by one side or the other, their whereabouts unknown, their fate uncertain. Cardboard boxes of produce spilled out of a general store and onto the cobblestones.
The distinct rhythm of Shiite religious music blasted out of a small laundromat on the street. A young man in a checkered white-and-gray hoodie was busy steaming clothes near the storefront. The steam fogged up the window. Each side had its anthems, its martyrs, its narrative, but both shared certain Syrian characteristics, like an infectious lightheartedness and bountiful hospitality—just not toward each other. Some of the low-level security and intelligence agents around Damascus, especially the irregular forces of armed neighborhood-watch-like groups, looked like many of the rebels I knew—with their beards, and with uniforms that were partly military camouflage, partly civilian attire.
The only difference was their footwear: dress shoes often pointy-toed for the regime men in the city, sneakers or combat boots for the rebels operating in more rugged terrain. Did the fighting men on both sides still have enough in common to spare their country further misery?
Had they tired of killing each other, or would each side continue to press ahead, certain of an outright military victory rather than a negotiated settlement? Damasco via rectaHPIM 2. Damascus house along the Straight Street Damascus house along the Straight Street b. Damascus near straight street. Damascus Straight Street - Old House. Damascus straight street at night.
Damascus Straight Street. Damascus Street called straight Damascus js Damascus, Syria , the Straight Street from the W.. The Mosque of Hisham built in , with fine stalactite design, is a bit further on. It is believed that the theater built by Herod the Great in the 1st century BC was in this area. Also nearby is St. Paul's Chapel , said to be where St. Paul fled by being dropped in a basket through a window in the wall. Below is a location map and aerial view of Straight Street.
Using the buttons on the left or the wheel on your mouse , you can zoom in for a closer look, or zoom out to get your bearings. To move around, click and drag the map with your mouse. God speaks to Ananias in a vision, and tells him to go to the Damascus Straight Street. Ananias is hesitant but goes anyway. After Ananias lays hands on Saul, his eyesight is restored and he is baptized.
Like other monumental gates, it has a large central arch for horse-drawn vehicles and two smaller arches on either side for pedestrians. There is a minaret above the northern arch, which was built at the time of Nur ad-Din Zangi , in the 13th century. Entering the city from the east through the Bab Sharqi, one can still see the remains of a double colonnade that used to line the entire length of the street.
In Roman times, Straight Street was 26 meters wide and 1, meters long, lined on both sides with covered porticos containing shops. The present road follows the same line, starting at Bab Sharqi in the East, crossing the whole width of the ancient city of Damascus, and coming out at the end of Suq Madhat Pasha, 20 meters to the North of Bab al-Jabiya on the western side.
The present road is narrower than the ancient one, and about 4 meters above its original level. Almost meters to the west of Bab Sharqi is a Roman monumental arch that was excavated and rebuilt in by the Syrian Department of Antiquities.
It is here that the intersection of Straight Street and the north-south cardo maximus has been located. On the right-hand side in ancient times stood a Byzantine church dedicated to the Virgin Mary and called Mariamyeh.
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