Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located southwest of the Old Town, in Harat Al-Qurami, 300 meters from Bab al-Qataneen near the school of the Islamic Orphanage.
Reason for the name
Named after Al-Qurami neighborhood where it’s located.
It is an old mosque with a library and inside the library, the owner of the mosque and next to it is a prayer hall for women.
It has a water cycle, a waded and a mihrab with four windows and two gates, it surrounded by the tomb of Sheikh Mohammed al-Qurami, next to the mausoleum is a 9-square-meter prayer hall for women.
The mosque is located within an architectural complex that is located in one of the historic Jerusalem shops that known as the Marzaban Hai Al-Qurami today, located near the bath of Alaa Al-Din Al-Basir.
It attributed to the founder of Al-Qarami Mosque, Sheikh Shams Al-Din Abu Abdullah Mohammed Bin Ahmed Al Turkmani, In Damascus in the year (720 AH / 1320 AD).
The mosque and the Zawiyeh are within the confines of Prince Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Ala al-Din Shah ibn Nasser al-Din Muhammad al-Jubaili in the aforementioned Mahalla, which had a great belief in the shaykh al-Qurami and a third of his property.
It abandoned until 1976, and then the worshipers became accustomed, there is no waqf of his property or it is missing.
According to the report of the Awqaf Inspector dated 1955/3/2, in which Hakoura and Press are likely Waqf to the mosque, as confirms one of the documents of the Awqaf Department dated 1956 (4/14 AD) said that the coffee sho.
However, it converted into a factory in the name of Sheikh Muhammad Taher al-Husseini (Mufti of Jerusalem).
Mosque and settler attacks
The mosque subjected to many attacks by settlers who surround it; they have stolen the loudspeakers that raised more than once or ripped it up or destroyed it sometimes, while the Israeli police and its forces did not hesitate to arrest the mosque’s imam and the committee overseeing its affairs.
The reconstruction of the mosque
The role of the Endowments Department not limited to the installation of a door separating the mosque and the residents of Hormeh on the date of 9/27/1977.
A committee of the residents of Jerusalem supervised its reconstruction and then opened in 1967, it supplied with electricity and water after a decade.
After another decade, as it reconstructed again in 1994, and today is a good condition; but usually the sheikhs of the mosque and the sheikhs of the corner in the revival of the last ten days of Ramadan and eat them and food Suhur.
Using the former and current to expose the mosque during its busy history to transformers and change its function and stop or disable it.
The book of the Awqaf Commissioner in 1938/9/1 m that a member of the Husseini family inhabit it, which necessitated an order to evict them.
History
Built during the reign of Salahaddin.