Take office as Mayor of Damascus

Damascus, Syria · 25 people · Heritage City

The Damascus City Council and the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities manage one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, overseeing UNESCO Old City heritage restoration including the Umayyad Mosque and the Via Recta (Straight Street), coordinating water supply from the Barada River aquifer system, and administering reconstruction of civic infrastructure and public utility networks.

The record Damascus keeps on the Board of Mayors is still unwritten. Take office and write its opening chapter.

Take the Oath of Office

The city

Landmark: Umayyad Mosque & Souq al-Hamidiyeh.

The Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities manages the Old City of Damascus — inhabited continuously for at least 11,000 years and featuring 125 monumental buildings from Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Ottoman periods — where heritage conservation teams conduct structural surveys of Mamluk caravanserais, Roman arch remnants, and Ayyubid mosques within an active residential and commercial urban district that has never ceased to function.
Damascus municipal water engineers manage the Barada River water system — the ancient lifeline of the city since Aramean times — coordinating aquifer extraction, highland spring diversion, and urban water distribution across a metropolitan area where pipe infrastructure restoration and network extension remain the primary civic engineering priorities.

How a term works

Take office and each day brings a live situation from the city's services: a decision to make and a result that is measured. A term is judged on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, within the city's budget, and every term adds to the record Damascus keeps on the Board of Mayors. Mayors message and confer with one another, form councils, trade with neighbouring cities and send aid where it is needed. Cities rise together.

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