It is 100 meters long and 10 meters wide, on both sides were shops that are not old but mostly closed, there are about 60 shops and across shops in two rows, separated by a semi-vault vault ceiling, which is held on 30 contracts.
It has a corridor leading directly to Al-Aqsa Mosque; each shop has one or more openings for ventilation and lighting.
The market has two entrances, the first from Al-Wad road on the western side and the second from Al-Aqsa Mosque on the eastern side, formerly known as the Cotton Traders Portal.
At the ceiling of the corridor adjacent to the gate that leads to Al-Aqsa Mosque, cross domes and hollow curves to the inside, hangs in their harmonious sequence in the way of the Al Moqarsanat.
There is a bath in the middle of the market known as “Bath Al-Shifa”, which is special for men, and the latest in the west Eye bath in front of it, on the western side, is a road connected to the Islamic orphanage, as well as to Al-Qurami neighborhood and then to Bab Khan al-Zayt.
The market contains new shops other than the other old, today the market works in the same profession and is sale of cotton and silk fabrics despite the methods of occupation of the Judaization of the Old Town.
There is currently a “commercial depression” in the market and a lack of sales movement because of the unfair occupation taxes, most notably the Arnona tax, and the market threatens excavations started in the seventies, at 1974.
The market’s endowments are dedicated to the Dome of the Rock and the Tikkaz School, and to its restoration, management and securing its gates at night.
It also is restored by the Islamic Council in 1929.
The market continues to function despite the constraints of the occupation and the imposition of taxes and the isolation of Jerusalem from the Palestinian side.
In the past and present, this market was one of the city’s best markets, the busiest and the most well-built and rising markets. Cotton and silk fabrics from India sold in during the Mamelukes, but the market at this time is deplorable