٠٠:٠٢:٠٤A few historic buildings survived the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey in February, unlike thousands of modern ones. Footage recorded in one of the disaster-hit area of Kahramanmaras on Friday shows some of the constructions that remained untouched.
One of such buildings is the historic Kahramanmaras Covered Bazaar, which is about 500 years old and remains standing despite suffering some structural damage. The nearby Tashmesjit Mosque and Chukur Turkish baths from the 15th century also resisted the earhquakes.
However, many structures in and around the area collapsed in the quakes. Among the destroyed and damaged historical monuments are the infamous 1,500-year-old Gaziantep Castle, the 17th-century Shirvani Mosque of Gaziantep or the Habib-i Najjar Mosque Mosque in Antakya.
Kahramanmaras was close to the epicentre of two devastating quakes, measuring 7.8 and 7.6 in magnitude on the Richter Scale, which hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Thousands of buildings were distroyed across both countries.
Turkey: Centuries-old buildings remain after quakes reduce much of Kahramanmaras to rubble
A few historic buildings survived the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey in February, unlike thousands of modern ones. Footage recorded in one of the disaster-hit area of Kahramanmaras on Friday shows some of the constructions that remained untouched.
One of such buildings is the historic Kahramanmaras Covered Bazaar, which is about 500 years old and remains standing despite suffering some structural damage. The nearby Tashmesjit Mosque and Chukur Turkish baths from the 15th century also resisted the earhquakes.
However, many structures in and around the area collapsed in the quakes. Among the destroyed and damaged historical monuments are the infamous 1,500-year-old Gaziantep Castle, the 17th-century Shirvani Mosque of Gaziantep or the Habib-i Najjar Mosque Mosque in Antakya.
Kahramanmaras was close to the epicentre of two devastating quakes, measuring 7.8 and 7.6 in magnitude on the Richter Scale, which hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Thousands of buildings were distroyed across both countries.
A few historic buildings survived the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey in February, unlike thousands of modern ones. Footage recorded in one of the disaster-hit area of Kahramanmaras on Friday shows some of the constructions that remained untouched.
One of such buildings is the historic Kahramanmaras Covered Bazaar, which is about 500 years old and remains standing despite suffering some structural damage. The nearby Tashmesjit Mosque and Chukur Turkish baths from the 15th century also resisted the earhquakes.
However, many structures in and around the area collapsed in the quakes. Among the destroyed and damaged historical monuments are the infamous 1,500-year-old Gaziantep Castle, the 17th-century Shirvani Mosque of Gaziantep or the Habib-i Najjar Mosque Mosque in Antakya.
Kahramanmaras was close to the epicentre of two devastating quakes, measuring 7.8 and 7.6 in magnitude on the Richter Scale, which hit Turkey and Syria on February 6. Thousands of buildings were distroyed across both countries.