The market is a 28-column arched roof with a number of ventilation windows and a part of the triangular market, which also includes the market of the Attarin and the merchants.
Previously, there were 100 shops selling meat, over time shops began to increase, ranging from small restaurants to selling wool, cleaning tools and selling vegetables.
The Umayyads and the Mamelukes restored the market during their rule of Jerusalem, in the 1980s, the occupation tried to control the market, resulting in the death of a young man because of heavy gunfire.
The occupation trying to impose restrictions on the merchants of this market through the apartheid wall,
which closed half of the shops and imposed a very high taxes such as Arnona, and the constant threat of cutting off electricity and services, resulting in increased pressure on the merchant Jerusalem, 68 shops closed in the market, which make up more than 50% of the shops in it.
In the past, the market was full of traders, traders and buyers. *Today, the difficult financial situation of the Jerusalemites deprived the market of its vitality and function.
The market now does not sell meat or fish as it was previously, only in a few shops that have held up to date and this is the result of the occupation of the city of the Judaization of the city.
The western part of the market under the property of the Lutheran monastery, the occupation took over the surface of the market and turned it into a synagogue