Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in Hart Al-Saadiyeh on the north-west side of Al-Aqsa Mosque towards Bab Al-Guanma, specifically in Ras Oqba Al-Mawla (the nun's Oqba).
Reason for the name
This name referred to as the companion Abu Rihana al-Azadi, whose shrine is located in the mosque.
extends to the mosque from the west gate under the stone facade, which is located on two or more poles (Baika or balance) of the late Ottoman style.
The is topped by a convex arc similar to the corrugated arches that used in Jerusalem since the Ayyubids era, and the inscription in the middle Surat Al Mamnoon “the believers have succeeded (1) who are in their prayers, humble (2) and those who are on the tongue are exposed (3) and those who are for zakat are active. (4) And those who are for their descendants keep (5)”, and the name of the mosque below them.
The mosque consists of a vaulted room with a vaulted dome that rises above the surface of the ground at 3.27 m and is of its dimensions (70.4 * 6.35) m 2.
At the bottom of the mosque is a vaulted vault that descends to it in stairs to the northwest, it was originally the old cemetery, but it dammed in 1979.
In the southern façade of the mosque is a mihrab that is about two meters high and three- , And its northern façade today has a library topped by a lamp, with no minaret, and contains the mausoleum of the companion Abu Rihana.
Its affairs monitored through the records of the Sharia court in terms of its various functions and functions, which carried out by members of the families of Jerusalem, Al Ghodba and Al-Sahib, it also dealt with the situation in which he mentioned two home neighboring, and the name of the landowner changed in the late Ottoman period. Shaykh Ali al-Khalouti died and the features of his corner changed.
And tends to be Sheikh Rihan attributed to this mosque is Sheikh Rihan al-Saadi, one of the men of Al-Saadiyya neighborhood who were buried in this place, also called the Hanbala Mosque
Restoration of the mosque
The study of researcher Fahmi Al-Ansari refers to the restoration of a group of good people who built it and converted it into a mosque in 1977. In 1982, the people of Haret Al-Saadiyya formed a committee to renovate and renovate its quarry, this completed by the Awqaf Department in Jerusalem in 1991.