The street was crowded with foreign visitors and tourists, and dozens of owners of local crafts and manufactures displayed their goods, which were very popular, while the street was decorated with lights and Christmas decorations.
Owners of shops and stalls colored with Eid gifts and supplies found an opportunity to revive the street and sell their crafts, such as sweets, decorations, and others.
Khader Al-Bandak, a stall owner in the Christmas market, says, “This street has been closed for years, and today this event came to revive it, and there has been a good movement.”
“The people of the country buy the most in the market, along with foreign tourists,” says the owner of a chocolate stall in the same market.
Lights and decorations made the historic Al-Najma Street a unique splendor, mixing colors, lights, mosque call to prayer, and church bells, as if it were a painting drawn by history and colored by the atmosphere of holidays and visitors.
About ten years ago, Al-Najma Street and the Church of the Nativity were included in the list of world heritage and became the path of pilgrims to the church, but this did not help to revive it commercially since it was interrupted in the eighties of the last century.
The shops in this street were closed more than thirty years ago, due to the conflict and the merchants deserted it. Today, they return with Christmas decorations and colorful gifts to live life in it with joy and hope, even for a few days.
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