In 1914, Fanbarsham described the originality of the design of its building and the splendor of its architecture; it consists of two floors overlooking an open courtyard.
It includes a mosque consisting of a prayer house on the first floor of the Khanka; it contains a large number of rooms for Sufis and worshipers.
A beautiful Mameluke entrance adorned with a beautiful collection of rows of hollow girders and a dome that hangs through its harmonious sequence to form what known as muqrsanat today, however changes made in its shape.
This school is the first Mameluke building north of Al-Aqsa Mosque; Ibn Fadlullah al-Amri identified its location and mentioned it as a bond, the historian of Jerusalem, Majir Allah al-Hanbali, said that he saw the book of waqf attributed to the school, known as Alsaleheen house.
This confirmed by the inscription of its establishment, which he describes as the betrayal of Sufis “Arabs and Ajam”
The waqf includes the villages of Beit Nabala of Jerusalem, Jericho, and other productive properties, shops and other houses in Nablus and Bisan, and the village of Tabars from Qaqoun, a bath in Nablus, which added later to waqf, contributed tothe scientific movement in Jerusalem.
Sheikhs from various Jerusalem families, most notably the families of Ibn Juma’a and the Engineer, continued to perform their mission until the end of the Ottoman era, it specialized for girls, and did not stop during the Jordanian administration, but allocated to primary education for males until 1985.
It worked as mayor of the Zionist entity converted school to a school for people with special needs under the supervision of the Arab Foundation.