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Public watering cans
(سقايات عمومية)

Title	Public watering cans
Title Original	سقايات عمومية
Publication Date:	1235 AH / 1820 AD
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID	monument;ISL;dz;Mon01;24;ar
Library Location	Algeria, Algeria
Date	1235 AH / 1820 AD
Notes	The city of Algiers and its countryside contained a large number of public waterways (streets), the number of which ranged, within the city walls, from 7 avenues according to Haidu in the 16th century AD, to 125 avenues according to the knight Darvio in 1674 - 1675, and “seventy-three avenues registered in 1840” (S. Maysum, “Algeria during the Ottoman Period”), a large number of which were established from Before the Days in the eighteenth century AD, these public watering stations were the work of philanthropists. A slab of marble or blue stone was placed on it, on which phrases were written in Arabic or Ottoman that glorified the virtues of the benefactors. An administration was assigned under the responsibility of the “Khoja al-Uyun,” equivalent to the position of secretary or curator of the sabils, to ensure the management of the “ahbas” (endowments) associated with these sabils. One of these sabils was called the “Wine Basin,” and it ended up on the exterior wall of the current National Museum of Islamic Antiquities and Arts. This path was built by Al-Dai Hussein in 1235 AH / 1820 AD outside Bab Al-Jazira (also called the “Holy War” Gate), below the Andalusian Artillery Company, and was first moved in 1867 “under a staircase belonging to the current prominent tower of Bab France.” (An undated report proposing the classification, but the classification decision dates back to May 13, 1905), then again to the Freedom Park (formerly Galan Park) on the wall of the Directorate of Antiquities, where it was the subject of a report on conservation work carried out by the first architect of the historic buildings in a letter dated May 27, 1968.
Sample Text	Ali Lafer “Public Watering Cans” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;dz;Mon01;24;ar

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Public watering cans

(سقايات عمومية)

Publication Date 1235 AH / 1820 AD

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Record ID monument;ISL;dz;Mon01;24;ar

Library Location Algeria, Algeria

Date 1235 AH / 1820 AD

Notes The city of Algiers and its countryside contained a large number of public waterways (streets), the number of which ranged, within the city walls, from 7 avenues according to Haidu in the 16th century AD, to 125 avenues according to the knight Darvio in 1674 - 1675, and “seventy-three avenues registered in 1840” (S. Maysum, “Algeria during the Ottoman Period”), a large number of which were established from Before the Days in the eighteenth century AD, these public watering stations were the work of philanthropists. A slab of marble or blue stone was placed on it, on which phrases were written in Arabic or Ottoman that glorified the virtues of the benefactors. An administration was assigned under the responsibility of the “Khoja al-Uyun,” equivalent to the position of secretary or curator of the sabils, to ensure the management of the “ahbas” (endowments) associated with these sabils. One of these sabils was called the “Wine Basin,” and it ended up on the exterior wall of the current National Museum of Islamic Antiquities and Arts. This path was built by Al-Dai Hussein in 1235 AH / 1820 AD outside Bab Al-Jazira (also called the “Holy War” Gate), below the Andalusian Artillery Company, and was first moved in 1867 “under a staircase belonging to the current prominent tower of Bab France.” (An undated report proposing the classification, but the classification decision dates back to May 13, 1905), then again to the Freedom Park (formerly Galan Park) on the wall of the Directorate of Antiquities, where it was the subject of a report on conservation work carried out by the first architect of the historic buildings in a letter dated May 27, 1968.

Sample Text Ali Lafer “Public Watering Cans” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;dz;Mon01;24;ar