Corners

Al-Bustami Corner

Located in Al-Masharqa quarter, known as Harat Al-Saadiya.

Built
770 AH / 1368 CE
Built by
Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalil bin Ali al - Assad al - Bustami
Era
Mamluk

Reason for the name

Named after Abizaid Tayfur Al Bastami.

Builder

Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalil bin Ali al - Assad al - Bustami.

Corner description

This corner made up of a building with a simple northern entrance, it is slightly below the ground of the public street, it surrounded by two rectangular stone blocks on either side, the entrance leads to an open courtyard surrounded by a number of rooms, and the shrine room.

Description of the mosque corner

Located on the northern side of the open square, a rectangular mosque extends from north to south and leads to a simple entrance.

Covered by a semi-barrel vault.

It opened in the middle of the southern wall, a simple niche, a hollow niche in the southern wall of it.

Description of the Shrine Room

The chamber of the mausoleum is located in the eastern corner of the open courtyard and the eastern part of the prayer house, it reached from inside the prayer house by a small entrance.

It is a rectangular room extending from east to west, covered by a semi-barrel vault, and opened a simple niche in its southern wall.

In the eastern corner is a rectangular, high-rise mausoleum that covered with fabric, like most of the tombs in Jerusalem.

The corner allocated to the poor followers of Sheikh Abdullah and made her Awqaf, and buried in the monsters of Bustami in the cemetery of Mamala after his death in 1391.

This corner has waqf, and it stood on it and its residents of the poor in Jerusalem, and it noted that there is another corner called by this name, located in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, east of the rock bowl supervising.

It mentioned by Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali that “the poor had met the Bastamiyya to mention Allaah”, it closed the gate, in his era.

History

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