Reason for the name
The angle of Qadiriyah attributed to Sheikh Abdul Qader Jilani; the founder of the Sufi method Qadiriyah in the Islamic world.
The reason for this designation sometimes referred to as the "Afghan angle" is due to the establishment of a group of Afghans in Jerusalem in the past decades, some of which recently taken over.
Builder
Mohammed Pasha Governor of Jerusalem.
The corner of Qadiriyah contains two external facades: a western facade and a southern one, in a description of the corner (15 Muharram 1043 AH / July 21, 1633), it contains a large rectangular mosque with several capacities in its sides, Large house, with oven and two openings on corner dish.
This corner includes a small building designed to wash the dresses of the poor neighbors, also contains 11 rooms in the western and Qibli areas, in the bowel corner of a large square box with the drawing of agriculture and three tanks for the collection of winters.
This corner accessed through a colonnaded entrance, topped by a foundation inscription, on either side of which is a stone seat, this entrance leads to an open courtyard and a converted to number of rooms.
It has a simple mosque, located to the right of the interior to the corner, consists of a prayer house, and has a niche in its southern facade; the movement’s followers usually adorn this mosque during their celebrations.
Al Qadiriya is one of the few buildings in Jerusalem that preserved its original layout and architecture without any major change, it continues its original function to this day, and it endowed with a generous number of employees, the city and its arrivals.
History
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