Khankah

Al Salahia Khankahh

Khankahh is an integrated architectural complex, consisting of a mosque, rooms for housing and public facilities.

Built
583 AH / 1187 CE
Built by
Salahaddin Al – Ayyubi
Era
Ayyubid

The records of the Al-Quds Legal Court include arguments concerning its waqf, administrative and educational affairs, the daily and social affairs of its employees, Sheikh Burhanuddin Ben Ghanem built a beautiful minaret for Hanqah in 840 AH / 1436 AD.

A small mosque located opposite Khankah, and there is a stone staircase leading to the second floor where a large mosque opens a mihrab in its nice southern wall and above it is a inscription on a marble tablet bearing the name of builder , Isa ibn Ahmad ibn Ghanem, and the year of construction (741 AH / 1340 AD) ).

As for the other parts of the Khanqah, they used as dwellings – upper rooms – for the Sufis and Shaykh Al-Khanqah, its goal is to teach the reading of Qur’an and improve it, and memorize the Prophet’s Hadith.

Al Asr prayer every day, and the readers of the Khankahh read in Al-Aqsa Mosque every Friday after the sunrise, and now it changed its function to hold in prayer in addition to that the other rooms turned into a house of residence.

In the records of the Jerusalem court, al-Khankah, says that Salahaddin made the patriarch’s bath and pool, the pool of Mamla (God’s Safe) and agricultural land in the area, as well as a group of Hakouras, houses and shops as waqf.

In addition to the functions of al-Khankah, where prominent Jerusalemite families such as Alalami, Inaiat Allah al-Ghazi, Beni Ghanem and Al muhandis.

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