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Bayram Gawish Office & Ribat (Al-Rasasia School)

This association was designated to housing and orphanages, and some of the legitimate arguments and documents of the Foundation for the revival of heritage and Islamic research to the care and reconstruction, and the allocation of rents in Jerusalem and the village of Bani Naim

Built
947 AH / 1540 CE
Built by
Prince Bayram Gawish bin Mustafa
Era
Ottoman

It maintained his post until the end of the Ottoman era, where its education function took over its role.

It known that after the completion of its occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli authorities hastened to impose their educational curricula in Jerusalem, which led to the strengthening of the educational role of this building because it maintained the teaching of the Jordanian curriculum as a secondary school for male education on the second floor of the building.

In 1975, the Department of Awqaf in cooperation with the people of Jerusalem renovated the place and opened a library called Al-Sadqat library and its wells belong to the poor of Jerusalem, the library is still full to the present day, and this explained by the name of the al-Rasasia school, especially after the eviction of Jewish tenants. In the year 1309 AH / 1891 AD.

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