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The Damascus room or Nur Al-Din Room is a period room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that reproduces the qa'a (reception room) of a medieval upper class Syrian household from Damascus.

History
The Damascus room was installed in the 1970s as part of the Islamic Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The majority of it was imported directly from Syria, modeled after a room from 1707. Although the room was initially named after the family name "Nur al-Din," which was mentioned in various sale documents, the Met was unable to verify this provenance and so has taken to calling it after its city of origin. The room was extensively renovated in 2011 and is now part of the museum's Islamic gallery.

Doris Duke

Hagop Kevorkian

Nur al-Din Madrasa

Nur ad-Din (died 1174)

Shangri La (Doris Duke)