Reason for the name
Named like this because it is near Al-Silsila gate, "one of Al Aqsa Mosque gates".
Builder
*Ottoman Sultan Suleiman Al Qanoni.
History
Year 934 AH / 1536 AD.
Shape and details
This spring considered as the richest baths, because it decorated with Islamic motifs and high-level architecture.
It consists of a water basin of 202 cm long and 25 cm high, with a tap for the flow of the water. After the restoration of the monuments in the 19th century, the basin was replaced by a royal Ottoman basin, the original moved to the Louvre in Paris in 1866.
Its front facade is similar to the gate rectangular, the sides had two columns topped by a prominent crown each of them, in a style known as “Al Moqrsana”, – a form consisting of hollow arches and vaults are consistent with each other-.
In the middle of the gate five roses with 13 benches, of which only nine remain, present above the inscription that mentions the name of the builder and the date of construction.
The inscription written in the Ottoman transcriptional handwriting.
At the top of the spring, there is an arch that has “Ifrieze”, – a prominent decorated bar with a geometrical shape according to its design -, curved and forms a tapered arch on the front of the whole road, on both sides’ two written words: “Waqf”, on the right side and “Islamic” on the left side.
At the end of the rectangular gate a bar ends with a spiral, the spring derives its water from a ground channel under the spring.