In the Turkish era it became a residence for some Africans who used by the Turkish government in the affairs of the police who guarded the schools, houses and galleries in the area of Al-Aqsa Mosque, it forbidden for Christians and foreigners to enter Al-Aqsa.
They prevented non-Muslims from entering it completely even if they were princes or kings.
As for today, their grandchildren suffer from poor living conditions in Jerusalem, and have become at the end of the Ottoman era, the school was a prison, the English transferred the prison to the present prison, known as the Miskobiya, and section of the building became a residential house in which a group from the Khalidi family.