Reason for the name
It was named after a Turkish Mukluk woman named Tanshq bint Abdullah al-Muzaffariyya who established and made it waqf.
Builder
A Turkish Mameluke woman named Tanshq bint Abdullah Al-
Muzaffariyya.
It characterized by a harmonious architectural complex in its square form, reached through a beautiful Mameluke entrance in a tapered shape, the turba built of red and white stones.
It contains the mausoleum of the woman, which located in the middle of this building and covers a beautiful dome shaped on an octagonal neck, of energies that allow lighting.
In the southern wall of the mausoleum room, there is a beautiful stone mihrab and rich with its unique architectural elements, and for the facade of this wonderful turba design, a miniature version of the façade of the Palace of Alset Tanshq Almuzafaria.
The significance of this turba is clear that the love of Mrs. Tanashq of Jerusalem not limited to her life, but extended after her death.
She wished to bury in the city of Jerusalem, adjacent to the righteous and friends who chose Jerusalem buried for them believing in his holiness and being the land of the resurrection and the sign and the publisher.
In the year 800 AH / AD 1398 AD, she buried in her grave, which she prepared for this purpose, she presented a second architectural masterpiece that was a unique turba that still stands in Jerusalem across her palace attesting to the richness and taste of this virtuous lady who had endured Sufism and the poor of Jerusalem.
History
In the Mamluk period (783-781 / 1382-1379).