Inside Basra’s Safafeer market, once famous for its supplied households with kitchen utensils, as well as decorative items made of copper, now holds only one copper store.
Basra’s Safafeer market was famous regionally during the 1950s and 60s.
The name “Safafeer,” local Arabic for
قال تعالى:
وَأَنَّ هَٰذَا صِرَاطِي مُسْتَقِيمًا فَاتَّبِعُوهُ ۖ وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا السُّبُلَ فَتَفَرَّقَ بِكُمْ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ