Schools

Al Khatonia School

Most of this school is located outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and its main rooms overlook the Al-Aqsa Mosque with five tombs.

Built
755 AH / 1354 CE
Era
Mamluk

This school is located south of Bab Al-Hadid next to the Argonne school, which is several rooms adjacent to the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, whose eastern windows overlook the courtyard of the Holy House.

It arrested by Mrs. AgelKhatoon, the daughter of Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Saif al-Din al-Qazaniyah, Baghdadiya, in a year 755 AH / 1354 AD and made Waqf by farm Daher Al Jamal and it seems that the architecture was not completed, and then completed and made Waqf by Isfahan Shah, daughter of Prince Kazan Shah in 782 AH / 1380 AD. Has been appointed Judge Hossam al-Din al-Hanafi Aak, 971 Hijri / 1563 AD, Sheikh Zinedine Mahmoud Shahab al din Ahmed al Diri, a reader and a teacher at the school and the pearl together for a fee of one Ottoman.

The school is divided into two parts: (one is a dwelling house), the other is a burial place and five are buried there Mujahideen for the sake of Allah from Jerusalem and outside, including Mujahid Prince Muhammad Ali al-Hindi (mercy God), of India, in 1349 AH / 1930 AD, The President of the Khaliphate Conference in India shows that inscription on utile above the window overlooking the mosque. He also wrote in the form of circles on the window “The Servant of the two great Mosques Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Buraq “. Who was known for his desperate defense of the cause of Jerusalem, and Palestine Aqsa Mosque of financial and political support during the British occupation, Traveled to London to defend the Wall of Al-Buraq and died in London while participating in a conference to defend the holy sites in Palestine, the Haj Amin al-Husseini (may Allah have mercy on him), the President of the Islamic Supreme Council in Jerusalem, Its burial next to the Qataneen Gate closely linked to the Western Al-Aqsa Gate.

He also buried Moses Kazem Pasha Husseini, chairman of the Arab Executive Committee in 1352 AH / 1934, and Mujahid Abdul Qadir Husseini (may Allah have mercy on him), the hero of the Battle of Qastal, which inflicted the Zionists the most terrible defeat in general 1367 AH / 1948, and his son Faisal Husseini (official file of Jerusalem 1422 Hijri / 2001), And the tomb of Ahmed Hilmi Abdel Baqi (died 1383 Hijri / 1963) head of the government of all Palestine (1376/1948), and the tomb of Abdul- Hamid Shoman founder of the Arab Bank (his death 1394 Hijri / 1974), and another tomb of Sharif Abdel Hamid Ben Aoun (1383 Hijri / 1963).

Note: – Cemeteries are located outside the boundaries of the Al-Aqsa Mosque because it is not permissible to bury in mosques.

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