Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in the middle of the Christian Quarter between the stairs leading to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the road (obstacle) leading to the Khanka Salih, west of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Reason for the name
Named by this name because it believed to contain talisman allegedly that invalidates the poison of the animals that bite the injured in Jerusalem.
It is a small mosque, 16 square meters in size, with a square shape, tiled and electrified, with neither a minaret nor a loudspeaker.
Located in the middle of a group of shops in the eastern row opposite to the church, and the proximity of mosques larger than it, made his job limited to the owners of shops and Muslim wandering in the shops adjacent to him, and may have caused the abandonment and change his job
One of the oldest mosques in Jerusalem attributed to the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab.
The use of the former and current
A report dated in 1938 states that it desolate and deserted, which called for its restoration and opening before the worshipers. A historian in 1946 reports that it was a charter of the Association of the Blind and used in the education of the chair industry.
This may caused a large number of reconstruction operations, such as the years 1958, 1975 and 1981, supervised by a section of the Islamic Endowments Department.