page_title: Al-Shibani Church
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Shibani Church / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Al-Shibani Church
context_page_description: Al-Shibani Church, also known as al-Shibani School, is a 12th-century religious and cultural centre located in "al-Jalloum" district of the Ancient City of Aleppo, Syria. The complex is located to the west of the al-Saffahiyah Mosque and of the south of Suq Khan al-Nahhaseen.
context_section_description: The building consists of two floors with a large courtyard in the centre. The building has many exhibition halls, being used for several purposes, such as the "Old Aleppo Reviaval Hall" which is proposed to commemorate the ancient city of Aleppo through a number of pictures and figures of old Aleppine districts, suqs, mosques and khans, as well as a pattern of the Citadel of Aleppo and the surrounding old quarters.
  One of the halls in the ground floor depicts the rehabilitation process of the building.
  The building is also home to the main offices of Goethe-Institut and Aga Khan Cultural Services in Aleppo, in addition to the Heritage Archive Centre of the Aleppo Archeological Society (Arabic: مركز أرشفة التراث العائد لجمعية العاديات بحلب‎).
  Al-Shibani school-church is one of the prominent samples of old Aleppine architecture.
caption: Permanent exhibition of Aleppo history
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