The building resembles a pulpit; so it’s also called Burhan Ad-Din Pulpit, after the Chief Justice Burhan Ad-Din bin Jama’ah, who built a marble pulpit in the place of the wooden one that Saladin had put. This pulpit was used during Eid prayers and the prayers to invoke Allah for rain, in Al-Aqsa courts. It is surrounded by two niches.
Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located south of the Dome bowel of the Rock, adjacent to the southern Barage.
Reason for the name
Its name “ The Balance Dome” came from the fact that it’s attached to the Southern arches, the arches that are known as the Balances. -Named Tribe of Burhan al-Din: because the fact of the form of a platform and above the dome called as nsme of its builder Chief Justice Burhanuddin bin jama’a, the dome known as Tribe of Burhan al-Din.
Builder
The Chief Justice Burhanuddin Ben Joma’a.
History
Built by Burhanuddin Place of a wooden platform put by Salah al-Din, year (790 Hijri-1388 AD).
Shape and details
The minaret building is made of marble from an entrance in above the contract rests on two small columns of marble, and ascends from it to a few degrees leads to a stone bench (seat) prepared to sit Khatib, and on top of that dome, adome nice small basil rests on beautiful marble columns, under the frieze board there is a small and beautiful mihrab in the west, while there is another mihrab on the east side, engraving inside the Western arch body carrying the Southern barrage.
Since it is in the form of a pulpit, a dome, it is known as the “Burhan al-Din Tribune”, after the Chief Justice Burhanuddin ibn Juma’a, which is located in 790-1388 AD, and they are the property of the mamluk.
The pulpit was renewed during the reign of the second Ottoman
Sultan Abdul Majeed bin Mahmoud, in a year 1259 AH – 1843 AD. Also, it went under a restoration process in late 2000, by a group of Italian students, through the Department of Islamic Endowments.
in the place of this pulpit, there was another lovely wooden pulpit, put by Saladin. Then, it was rebuilt from the stone in the geometric style that the mamluk pulpits are famous for, with their engravings and beauty. Throughout the ages, it has become an architectural masterpiece that shines with beauty and magnificence.
This pulpit is called by some people “Summer Pulpit”, because it’s in an open yard, used in summer only when the weather is appropriate, to
give lessons and lectures. It was used for speech and Dua’a in Islamic Eids, as well as for the prayers of ascites, which are held in the squares of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as there is no pulpit in the squares of the other mosque.