Kazaz Market (from the body)

It is located south of the Customs House. It was built in 1562. In the Rizvan Ahmet Pasha Foundation of 1740, it is written that this bazaar, known as Bezzazistan, was repaired. It is made of smoothly cut stones from the closed bazaar-shaped Bedestan. There are 4 gates: the main gate leading to Han Ön Market in the east, the western gate leading to Sipahi Market, the southern gate leading to Pamukçu Market and the northern gate leading to Gümrük Hanı. The foundation of the western gate is understood to have been opened by the destruction of a shop in the Sipahi market. The shops, which extend in two rows right and left in the market, were lowered to ground level during the renovation of the Şanlıurfa Year of Culture Education Art and Research Foundation (ŞURKAV) in 1998, while they were one meter high. The structure is nowadays used as a market where local clothes and accessories are sold. Şanlıurfa Bedesteni is one of the few markets in Anatolia that has not lost its authentic value.