The market is one of the most beautiful historical markets in the walled town and similar to the Qataneen market building.
It consists of a long street parallel to the Wad road and contains two entrances.
It’s across many shops that come in two rows, including a half-barrel vaulted corridor with pointed arches with ventilation holes.
One of its stores near the monastery of the Copts there is part of the old wall of the town.
300 meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which starts from the Qibli side at the Qataneen market, which leads to the church and ends at the northern end of the Bab al-Amoud market.
In the center of the market, we find the sixth stage of the Via Dolorosa (the pilgrimage route to the Christians) as well as the Church of the Ahbash and the prayer of Abu Bakr.
Bab Khan zayt Market is a commercial market is filled with shoe and clothing shops, as well as spice shops, pickles and more.
There are also a number of oil presses and Almassabn “soap factories”, famous for oil extraction and sale, and sale of products entered in the manufacture.
The market continues to function despite excavations that caused a landslide near the entrance to the market, as well as the theft of stones of the old market and replace them with new stones instead of them by the municipality of the occupation in the process of looting and falsification of the effects of the city and its history