Paris Square in Haifa
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The Paris Square also known as Hamra Square or the Churches District is a public square in
Haifa ,
Israel , located in Downtown Haifa. It was built during the
Ottoman period . The Hamra Square was a public space created in Haifa during the Ottoman period. It was surrounded by a market,
Carmelite (St. Elias Carmelite Church) and
Maronite (
St. Louis the King Cathedral, Haifa ) churches, hotels, etc.
In 1935, the Carmelite order commissioned Italian architect Giovanni Borra to design the area bordering on Paris Square (Khamra) from the north and adjacent to the Carmelite Monastery, which called later the “Carmelite Compound”. The buildings were designed in the International Style with Tubzeh (split face) and Musamsam (light chiseled) stone cladding. The result: two spectacular three-story and five-story blocks on the corners that defiine Eliyahu Hanavi St., surrounded on both sides by a portico and comerece.
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In 1954, when the Israeli government commissioned the
Carmelit funicular subway system from a
French company, it decided to rename the area to Paris Square as a friendly gesture to the French. The station next to the square was named Paris Square as well. In 2018 the Paris Square Carmelit station was renamed Downtown Station. It is the lower terminus of the Carmelit.
In 2011, the square was renovated, and its reopening ceremony was attended by the mayor of
Paris at the time,
Bertrand Delanoë .
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