who inhabited it during the Crusader occupation.
The Kurdish sailors named after the Kurds who came with
Salahaddin and who lived there.
Located between Bab Al-Sahira and Al-Amoud, near Al-Aqsa
Mosque.
One of the most important District in the Old City of Eternal
Jerusalem, it is the focus of the attention of extremist Jewish
groups, who are able from time to time to control a house here
and building there with the help of the weak souls with great
temptations and the more twisted ways.
That why this is no longer what everyone knows, the scene of
the Zionist flag flying from the window of a house or a group of
heavily guarded guards goes through the District to protect a
settler here and a family of settlers there.
It is one of the most prominent areas of the existence of a large
number of shrines of martyrs, including: Sheikh Makki, Sheikh
Bustami, Sheikh Malawi, Sheikh Rihan, and Om Al-Moaminin
wife of the Prophet peace be upon him.
The main entrance to this main District is also Bab Al-Sahira
north of the city, where the road to Al-Aqsa Mosque and the
majority of the population in this District of Muslims, District
Al-Saadiya and District Bab Hatta are one of the outlets of Al-
Aqsa Mosque.
It has traces from the Ayyubids era, and the Al-Salahia school
established by Salah al-Din as a scientific place.
Many scholars in Jerusalem came out, including the Zawya
Mawlawi, in which supporters of this method reside, this
method entered Jerusalem in the early Ottoman period (925
AH).
The most important cdistrictcteristic of this District is the
abundance of magnificent treasures of the Islamic monuments,
among these treasures is the Minaret Al Hamra Mosque, which
located in the Al Sa'idiya District in the Old City of Jerusalem.
It is one of the most important buildings built in the Ottoman
era, its minaret is one of the finest minarets in Jerusalem, in the
late Mameluke architecture, and this mosque established by
Shaykh al-Shiokh al-Din Ali ibn Shams al-Din Muhammad al-
Khaluti, before 940 AH 1533 AD.
The first half of the sixteenth century, it called the "Sheikh Ali
Al Khlouti Mosque", after its establisher.
The city called it the "Minaret of the Red Mosque", related to a
red bar that surrounded the minaret of the top.
The mosque consists of a building and a long minaret and a
chapel located in the south-west of the building and minaret of
circular minarets that based on a square base above the ground,
unlike minarets on buildings.