The building of the school is one of the most prestigious and ancient buildings in Jerusalem, it distinguished by its high gate, which is brightly colored. Above it is an arch, topped by rows or panels of hollow niches and a dome that hangs through its symmetrical sequence, which known architecturally as Almoqarsanat.
The school consists of two floors, in the center of the first open-air dish to the northern and southern Iwan of the school, arriving at a beautiful Mameluke-style entrance with two stories high, white and red stones decorated a group of arched girders and a sloping dome during a symmetrical sequence, abeautiful mural in the southern Ewan.
A stone in the northwestern corner to the northern Iwan, and then leads to the second floor, which contains rooms, teaching rooms, student accommodation and teachers.
The records of the Shari’a Court of Jerusalem and some books of the taboo dating back to the Ottoman period, confirm the suspension of Almazharia School, which made waqf of the village of Beit Sahour Khan Bani Saad and its lands, as well as other lands in Jerusalem.
In the late tenth century / AD 16th century, it exceeded its 1000 coins, spent on the beneficiaries.
The school continued its important scientific role, which carried out by scientists from the families of al-Ghazi and Dajani.
At the end of the Ottoman period, the school built in the state of Said al-Dawadi before being inhabited by a group of the Shaabani, and knew the House of the people until 1933, so bought by the waqf of the family.