Location relative to Al-Aqsa
The library is located in the building of Awqaf Bab al-Sahira.
Reason for the name
Named by this name because it is the largest library in the Arab world with records of the oldest records of the world.
The contents of the library through history to several places, including the building of the old Islamic court in Bab al-Silesia.
Which dates back to the eighth century AH, and then to the corner of the Zawya Bukharia in 1941, and finally settled in the building of Awqaf Bab al-Sahira, where it is now, 1982.
The number of records of the Court is 616 records, and these records of nearly one hundred thousand pages, and the first record of 14 Shawwal 936 Hijri is the oldest records of the Islamic courts in all Arab countries.
The library’s records cover a long period of the ancient history of Jerusalem in the Ottoman era, and the common language of records was Arabic, but it contained
Also records in the Turkish language dating back to the first two centuries of the Ottoman rule of Palestine, and the number of pages of each of these records of about 150 to 300 pages.
The first page written in each record the name of the judge and the first date he sat for the provision, and each document was a signature the documents in the library are among the most important records and documents that are reliable for the cultural, historical, economic and political history of Palestine in the Ottoman era.
It worth mentioning that the protection of the contents of the library and the numbering of records, the Eminence of the Holy Judge of Jerusalem, Abdul Hamid Al – Seyyed,
The library divided into three types of records
Fermin’s and orders issued by the central authority to the governor or judge or other senior officials, and the decisions of the appointment and sectors of the majority of the first two centuries of Ottoman rule in Palestine.
Records of commandments and legacies.
Military and regular military records.
History
The end of the 1940s.