Reason for the name
It named after its establisher Prince Hossam din Baraka Khan
Builder
Prince Hossam al-Din Baraka Khan, the leader of the Al-Khwarizmiya, who summoned by King Necmettin Ayyub, to help him recover Jerusalem from the hands of the Franks
The turba consists of an open courtyard containing three tombs of the above mentioned, located in the west of the room.
Now used in the library Al Khalidi, the most important feature of the Barka Khan turba’s structure is its main northern facade, which overlooks the Bab al-Silsilah road, which located in the north-eastern part of which is a medium-sized entrance surrounded on each side by a stone bench known as the Guillotine.
In the northwestern part, there are two windows above one hold the tapered, above the other chain cut.
Current use: Al Khalidi Library (Khalidiya Library) now in use.
its location is important, because it’s active and old and is in the center of the social life since the days of the mamelukes. Also, it’s near Al-Aqsa mosque. It was characterized by activity and vitality around the clock.
The builder of this turba is Prince Hussam din Baraka Khan, who was the leader of the Al-Khawarithmiya, helped liberate Jerusalem from the Crusader occupation.
Prince Hussam al-Din continued to fight the Crusaders until he martyred in Homs in 644 AH / 1246 AD, and buried in his turba, he buried there and his sons Badr al-Din Muhammad and Husam al-Din Karah Bey, in the Mameluke era, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-‘Alai renewed this turba and expanded it in 792 AH / 1294 AD.
As for the Khalidiya library it built in 1899 AD (1318 AH) and founded by Haji Ragheb Al Khalidi as an Islamic waqf, in the amount of money recommended by his grandmother Khadija Khalidi, and became an atomic stand to this day.
The Khalidiya library today characterized by a large number of manuscripts written by the lines of the authors of famous scientists, and the beautiful gilt copies, which used different colors of ink and rare copies of the Koran, this library is a real treasure.
History
The turba dates back to the Mamluk period and was built between 663-679 AH / 1265-1265 AD