Reason for the name
It was owned by the Qubts, a Christian sect.
Builder
Al Mutran Anba Ibraham.
Located in the Christian Quarter, adjacent to Al-Khalil gate, which is one of the gates of the old town, the Mosque of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Alqiama church, near the monastery of St. George.
A large pool in the middle, used in the days of the Ottomans to collect winter rains.
The Qupts khan built according to the Quptic Church.
The president of the Al Aqsa Academy Najih Bakirat said that when the Frankish conquered Jerusalem in 1079, they expelled the Qupts from the Khan, but Salahaddin returned them after the liberation of Jerusalem in 1187.
In the Ottoman era, the Khan used for hospitality, and pilgrims, pilgrims and passers-by settled in, in 1967, the Khan transformed into a residential neighborhood full of Jerusalemites, it is behind each door of a family, and the Khan today accommodates 35 families, each housed in a residence ranging between forty and forty square meters
It is worth mentioning that the Khan transformed from a place of hospitality and stability of pilgrims and passers-by to a residential neighborhood for the residents of Jerusalem.
Today, residents of Al-Khan are suffering from cracks in the houses and high humidity due to the Israeli occupation forces preventing the owners from renovating their old homes.
The use of the khan, was a place of hospitality and stability of pilgrims and passersby, and later turned into a residential neighborhood for Jerusalemites.