Schools

Al Amenia School (Zawiya)

This school located east of the Persian (al Faresia) school, and called Dar Imam for the residence of Sheikh Imam, it is located west of Bab al- Atm / King Faisal in the northern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque and bordered by the east the road inside to the door of King Faisal.

Built
730 AH / 1329 CE
Built by
Ameen al din Abdullah bin Ghanem
Era
Mamluk

From the north by the Mujahideen, and from the west by the school Farsi, and south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Minister Amin al din Abdullah, who established it one of the officials of the Nasserite army Qalawun and known as the Ameen AL Malik.

It was restored in the era Ottoman, and their names Dar Imam where he studied the ancestors of the family of Imam and took a house to live.

The occupiers made it a semi-enclosed place and closed its doors during the closing periods Aqsa Mosque, despite the recent attempts to open it as a headquarters for Da’wah and spreading Islam, after being bought by Sheikh Mohammed Asaad Imam. The ground floor includes the tomb of Dia al din Hakari from the princes of Salah al-Din, other than the graves of those who took the sheikh of the school of his descendants (the family of Imam Jerusalem).

Amin al din was a Coptic and became a Muslim who held important positions during the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Muhammad Ben Qalawun, including the Minister of State and its leader, but today the schoolhouse.

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