Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in Bab Al-Khalil area to the east of Omar Bin Al-Khattab Square, Bahar Al Asaliyah, opposite Al-Quds Citadel.
Reason for the name
It named after Sheikh Yaqoub al-Ajmi.
Today consists of a rectangular prayer house, extending from east to west, with an area of 98 m 2 and a height of 6 m. It has a mihrab in the southern wall and an open courtyard on the western side, which is 5 × 12 m.
The adjacent records of a Protestant church to the west, the Christian hostel to the north, houses and residences of Christians from Protestant denominations are attributed to Sheikh Shams al-Din ibn Abdullah al-Baghdadi, the records of the Sharia court refer to the waqf of the mosque.
The most important of which is Hakoura al-Yaqoubi, St. James, an area of about 10 acres, but the waqf owners sold under the pretext of replacement for the reconstruction of the mosque.
In 1966/2/24, demanded the Department of Awqaf in Jerusalem to connect electricity, and known as the “corner of Sheikh Shams al-Din bin Sheikh Abdullah al-Baghdadi, also “Mosque of Asali “.
The use of the previous and current mosque
In the ninth century AH / fifteenth century AD to the corner called since the name of the corner of Sheikh Yacoub Ajami, abandoned after his death until the Ottoman period and took a mosque to hold the five prayers, although the walls of the mosque sold almost all of the reconstruction Since the end of the nineteenth century AD.
The research team found only a modest reference in 1941, which prompted a Jerusalem resident to propose turning it into a night school for the eradication of illiteracy, before it renovated in 1988.
History
The building dates back to the Roman period, to the 7th or 8th century AD.