Reason for the name
Called the corner Indian or Alfredic, after the Indian Sufi Baba Farid Shukrkang.
The corner is a huge architectural complex consists of two floors, each floor contains a gallery and a large number of upper and lower rooms and open courtyard and a mosque, in addition to the buildings that I joined.
Corner and Indian origin
The story began when the Indian Sufi scholar Baba Farid Shukrang introduced the city of Jerusalem about 800 years ago and spent forty days in an underground stone room next to a mosque near Bab al-Sahera, since then his room has become a shrine for Indian pilgrims on their way out of the pilgrimage.
The Indians interested in expanding the place and buying properties adjacent to the Sufi room, reaching a combined area of seven denims within the boundaries of the Islamic quarter in the Old Town, Bab al-Zahra, and so called the corner Indian or Alfredic, after the Sufi Baba Farid Shukrang.
The importance of corner
The Indian corner is gaining importance because it is a place frequented by Indian ambassadors and ministers for centuries, in which they meet Palestinian leaders, but the most serious of these days is the ongoing attempt to Judaize Israel.
Angle and risks to which
The corner destroyed in large parts of them because of the 1967 war, and the distribution of the rest of them between the offices of UNRWA and the school of Riad al-Aqsa and a house for housing.
This angle is witnessing attempts to Judaization by the occupation, as these attempts began to seize the houses of Arab Jerusalemites around it, and attempts to seize are continuing, in addition to that has been the establishment of a military observation point of the Zionist occupation army on its wall from the south-west.
Corner Affairs Care
The Ansari family of Indian origin received the responsibility of sponsoring the corner nine decades ago, according to Sheikh Mohammed Munir al-Ansari, the sheikh of the sheikhs responsible for his care since 1924.
Al-Ansari added that the head of the Supreme Islamic Council, Amin al-Husseini, sent a delegation from Jerusalem to India, carrying a letter asking the Indian government to send a person to take care of the corner and manage its affairs.
His father, Sheikh Nazer Hassan al-Ansari, who was from Sarnurbup in India’s Yobe state, chosen to take care of the corner.
History
Established in the Mameluke period 850 years ago.