Reason for the name
Named after Mohammed Bahaa al-Din Naqshband Bukhari.
It consists of an open narrow corridor running north to south, with rooms on both sides of the eastern and western sides, as well as a prayer house to the right of the interior directly from the entrance to the north corner, a simple niche in the middle of the southern wall.
This corner dedicated to accommodating strangers and feeding the poor, especially Muslims of Bukhari, Java and Turkmenistan.
Today, its mosque is still full of remembrance of God and the five prayers, while the other parts of its rooms, some of which used as a residence, and the other a clinic.
The Naqshbandi angle considered one of the features of Ottoman Jerusalem, it also referred to as the Azbekiyya or the Bukhari angle, compared to those who built it, it mentioned by many historians of Jerusalem and believed to build in the late Mameluke or early Ottoman periods.
It is located outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque but inside the walls of the Old Town, this corner contains a small mosque located on the road of Bab Hatta.
It established in order to shelter the visitors and feed the poor especially those from Central Asia, Muslims of India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, the Caucasus and other Islamic countries, Sheikh Othman Beak Al-Bukhari, known as the Sufi, expanded the corner in 1731, and later Sheikh Rashid Al-Bukhari took the corner, his son, Sheikh Ya’qub al-Bukhari, died in 1956. The Sheikh then moved to his son, Sheikh Musa bin Ya’qub al-Bukhari, and currently based on Sheikh Abdul Aziz Musa Bukhari after taking the allegiance of Sheikh Mohammed Nazem al-Haqqani in Cyprus.
The origin of Al-Bukhari family
Al-Bukhari family came from Uzbekistan in 1616, with the aim of representing their countries exactly like the embassies now, and publishing part of their culture and knowledge on the Naqshbandi Sufi way from the Uzbek word.
In the year (1144 AH / 1731), supervised by Sheikh Hassan al-Uzbek, who added a number of other rooms And became known as al-Azbekiya relative to it.
Objective of the corner
It was the attempt of the corner sheikhs to establish the mystical rules, because the city of Jerusalem is a religious tourist and the corner in general, apart from being schools, are also guesthouses for the sons of her country or others.
The Nukhisbandi corner hosted for 400 years on Thursdays every week the people of Jerusalem and visitors to the city on tables Free, but said after the war of setback because of the occupation first.
Also because of the Islamic Waqf endowment as a general charity waqf, which limited the benefit of rents of houses in favor of the corner, the number of Uzbek, Turkish and Afghan visitors to Palestine annually before 1967 ranged from 30-80 visitors annually.
History
Some believe that it built for the first time in the eighth century AH / 14 AD, based on built by the founder of the Naqshbandi method in this century; Sheikh Mohammed Bahaa al-Din Naqshband al-Bukhari, there is no text dating from its inception. Some legitimate arguments show that they were rebuilt in the year (1035 AH / 1625) by Osman Bak al-Bukhari, known as the Sufi, where he added a number of rooms.