The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The covered bazaar

Two rows of shops along a street roofed bay by bay, with domes lit by lanterns.

The covered bazaar Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Early Islamic (Umayyad and Abbasid) · Moorish (Western Islamic) · Persian Islamic (Seljuk, Timurid and Safavid) · Ottoman · Mughal

The rules it illustrates

The bazaar as the spine of the city. Build the bazaar as one continuous covered street, roofed by a dome over every bay, linking the city’s squares, and open caravanserais, colleges, baths and mosques off it along its length.