Salihiya Region

Situated at the foot of Jebel Kassioun overlooking Damascus. She began to be populated in the eleventh century ago when people stopped by the Crusaders occupied Damascus. The madrasas are many religious traditions here as well as mosques, hospitals (Bimaristan). It also contains the graves of many Muslim thinkers and mystics like Ibn Arabi and Abdelghani Mohieddine A Nabulsi.
In the neighborhood of Sheikh Mohieddin is a large wooden waterwheel, built in the thirteenth century following the plans Jazri largest Arab scholar in mechanical engineering. This waterwheel lifting water from the river Yazid to twelve meters to supply the hospital with Qaymari Salihiya. Waterwheels many that had the district - one of its streets named after the wells street - is the only one to survive.