Aloun Market "Aloun Market": This market was named after the mosque that was built during the Mamluk period and attributed to the Aloun family in Jerusalem. The market includes 28 shops, some of which date back to the Crusader period. The majority of Souk Aloun stores were specialized in selling tanned leather and its products at the beginning of its inception.

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Some of the shops of Suwaiqat Aloun, "the popular name for the market," are specialized in selling traditional Palestinian jewelry and precious stones imported from abroad.

The majority of imported and traded gemstones in the market are imported from abroad, as they are extracted from their original mining sites in Brazil and Argentina, to be cut and polished in India and Thailand, and then exported to various markets. Shops for trading precious stones and their manufactures in Suwaiqat Alloun.

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