Reason for the name
Named Al-Shifa’s, which means “to be healed”, to believe that every patient bathe in it can be healed, God&39;s willing.
Builder
Prince Saif al-Din Tinkz al-Nasiri, deputy of the Egyptian Sultanate in Syria.
Named Al-Shifa’s, which means “to be healed”, to believe that every patient bathe in it can be healed, God&39;s willing.
The bathroom is located in the south-eastern part of the Qattaneen market.
Prince Saif al-Din Tinkz al-Nasiri, deputy of the Egyptian Sultanate in Syria.
Mameluke era – year (730 AH / 1336 AD).
Apartment of Mashlah, the middle and the interior, and enter through an entrance leading to almashlah squared room, where mediated by a marble water basin octagonal shape, to give the eastern and western sides and southern terraces to sit Bathers.
Its roof covered with a fan vault a narrow second passageway leads us to the middle room, which has a shallow dome interspersed with glass-covered openings to allow light to enter and not to let out heat.
The sides of the room surrounded by stone terraces where the bathers sit while preparing their bodies to withstand the heat in the interior.
The third section of the bathroom (Jowani / House of Fire), it divided into three sections; the first is for hot water collectors for the entrants; the second for the three bathing rooms and the third for the bath.
The rooms and the bathtub covered with shallow domes with glass-covered glass openings, and the house of fire needed to heat the water (burner) at the back.
The records of the Sharia Court in Jerusalem and the book of Ottoman taboos filled with documents dealing with the affairs of this important historical landmark, the affairs of the Awqaf and its employees, in the tenth century AH / AD 16th century, there were about 4000 engravings (Ottoman coin).
Today, it not used, documenting the revival of heritage and Islamic research documents that show the role of the Supreme Islamic Council in the care and reconstruction of this bathroom and the organization of leases.
It is the owned by Islamic Waqf, and run by Subhi al- Sayuri and his sons until it closed, it is now part of Al-
Quds University.