In the Ottoman era, the school became a Sharia court, and from here it became known on behalf of the Court, and remained so until the early British Mandate, which taken by the Islamic Council, then returned to a school to teach Islamic jurisprudence.
In 1389 – 1969, confiscated by the Zionist occupation authorities, then converted to a military location to the so-called border guards, where they supervise the Al Aqsa Mosque, and intervene to after worshipers at the outbreak of demonstrations condemning the occupation.
By virtue of its location adjacent to the Wall of Al-Buraq, many Zionist excavations carried out to tunnels believed to be carried out to the inside of Al Aqsa Mosque.
These fossils relate to what he called Jews tunnel ” Hashmonaim”, Which opened in 1996, and extends from the occupied square of Al-Buraq south, along the western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, until he reaches the school north to the north, with other tunnels on its sides.
In March 2006, Moshe Katsav, head of the occupied entity, inaugurated a Jewish synagogue in one of these the tunnels, located directly below theAltankazia school, are completely adjoining the western wall of the al-Aqsa Mosque, where it runs to the Jews from the wall of the occupied Buraq wall.
In September 2006, the occupation authorities inaugurated a site, the first of its kind in the underground space Aqsa Mosque, within parts of the so-called Tunnel Hashmonaim” , specifically under the entire Al Buraq Wall mean ( adjoining the fully-blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque), and named it the Museum “chain/convoy of generations”, where It includes seven rooms that tell false Jewish history, using sound and light displays.
This school occupies the roof of 6 arches in the western gallery to the south of the gate and overlooking the gate its western windows on the western gallery of the Al-Aqsa Mosque are beautiful schools, he said of Majir al-Din: It is a great school that is not in school, and it has mastered its construction Alsisila, And has a passenger compound on the western corridors of the mosque.
The school consists of two floors, the second floor is housing for students and Sufis (Khanaqah). Dispose of the students and teachers at the school are from Khan Tinkz, Ein Al-Shifa and half shops Qataneen market (as shown in the endowment on his school).
The school converted into a court of judges at the end of the Mamluk period and continued as a court.
It was a Sharia school during the Ottoman period and during the British Mandate lived Haj Amin al-Husseini president the Supreme Islamic Council of Palestine, to oversee the square of Al-Buraq and monitor the violations of the Jews, especially after the events of the revolution of Al-Buraq in 1348 Hijri / 1929).
The school was damaged by the earthquake of 1345 AH / 1927 AD. So the Supreme Islamic Council To renovate the school and to reinforce the masts it carries.
In the Jordanian period, the building returned to be a Sharia school until the Israeli occupation forces in general, 1389/1969, by confiscating and turning it into a center for the Israeli border guards as well The Israeli police installed surveillance cameras over the Muslim school inside Al-Aqsa Mosque