Reason for the name
Named after the Moroccans immigrating to it since the opening Alsalahi.
Builder
Made waqf by Alafdal king Noor al-Din Abu Hassan Ali bin Salah al-Din Ayyubi.
Named after the Moroccans immigrating to it since the
opening Alsalahi.
Located in the southeast of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Adjacent to the Buraq Wall.
Made waqf by Alafdal king Noor al-Din Abu Hassan Ali bin
Salah al-Din Ayyubi.
(589 AH / 1193 AD – 592 AH / 1195 AD).
The shape like the box, and interspersed with the details of
ancient archaeological and historical facilities, some of them
dating back to the Ayyubids period.
Interspersed with these facilities obstacles and narrow and
narrow gaps learning to connect the District each other.
Spread on either side of each obstacle or road of its roads or
even a fork in the building buildings Adjacent, sometimes
topped with arches and bows and some domes cdistrictcterized
by foot and adjacent houses, and is famous for its wells and
small rooms and thick walls and small entrances narrow.
Its buildings also contain Islamic historical buildings, some
dating back to the Mameluke period.
This was the whole District of Alafdal king (the son of Sultan
Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi) after the liberation of the city from the
Crusaders, where he made waqf on the Moroccan Mujahideen
who participated in the conquest and remained in their name.
Over time spread the multi-waqf of schools, buildings, chapels,
Zawaya and others, Nasser al-Din al-Ayyubi housing numbers
of Moroccans in Jerusalem, after the victory of the Muslims in
the Battle of Hittin and the opening of Jerusalem.
Then the best king Nour al-Din Ali bin Salah al-Din made waqf
with housing surrounding the wall of Buraq on the interests of
the neighboring Moroccan community in Jerusalem to facilitate
them in their stay, history this place taken from the city of
Jerusalem known as the Al-Magharba District
On June 6, 1967, during the Six-Day War, the Zionist forces
occupied East Jerusalem, at the end of the war, within a few
hours; the Zionists destroyed the Al-Magharba District, which
carried out the most horrible massacres of humanity and
archeology, including 138 buildings including Al Buraq Mosque
and Magharba Mosque.
Al Afdalia school,Zawiya AL Fakhrya, and Maqam Sheikh, and
all this to establish an arena to receive the Jews who came to
pray.
Wipe the neighborhood from the scene of the city of Jerusalem
in full, and built on the ruins of a large square facing the Wall of
Buraq, and is one of the widest open areas within the Old City,
accommodate the Jewish worshipers, violence crime and trying
to rewrite the history of the region.
Al-Magharba District was home to immigrants from Morocco
and North Africa for many centuries, and before the 1967 war,
where some 650 people living in 100 families lived.