Location relative to Al-Aqsa
Located in the south of Harat Al-Sharaf, which led to Haret Mgharba to the west.
History
Before 878 AH / 1473 AD.
The entrance to the mosque passes from Bab Alhadid adjacent to the road, and then ascends through a passage of about six meters.
Then it rises to several thresholds leading to an open courtyard surrounded by a stone basin facing the door leading to the prayer hall.
Surrounded by arches that converge around a nozzle in the center, the vent is aeration and lighting, and three other windows, including Shabakan in its eastern wall and a south-south window.
It has a beautiful square and royal style, about 15 meters high. About a niche, and tiled and buffered.
The mosque located on the southern side of the second square area of 1.5 × 7 m 2 surrounded by iron rails, reaching the thresholds leading to the iron gate to the south-west, leading to a water cycle and sit sitting on the stone seats.
Followed by a small room (2 × 3) m2, adjacent to the entrance, and used by the worshipers in the status of their belongings and their needs.
It reached by a long alley that begins at the junction of Bab Al-Silasah and Khan Al-Zayt roads close to Khan Al-Sultan.
Then southward, this mosque built in an important position, it surrounded by two churches: one from the north, the other from the east, Including two extremist schools and an Israeli police station separated from the mosque by the public street, and a few shops.
It should be noted that this mosque founded on a land waqf by a Muslim before the middle of the eighth century AH / fifteenth century, but surrounded by real estate seized by Jews Muslims in several ways nowadays, making it a sensitive focus.
Some of the legitimate arguments refer to the continuation of the mosque in the performance of its mission throughout the Ottoman period, necessitating the appointment of staff and imams from time to time, these referred to as Sheikh Abu al-Saud and his son Haj Ahmed, it known as Hakkoura al-Qasarah in the Armenian Quarter.
The House of Awqaf in Jerusalem gave this mosque special importance and intended to provide the needs of reconstruction and care.
Reports from the year 1940 to the ignore who take the Waqf for mosque, however, the reconstruction process continued, but the excavations of the Zionist occupation authorities in its vicinity threatened again in 1972 and 1974.
The endowments built the retaining walls of the minaret and its minaret and reconstruction of its external and internal walls with stone.
It continued the reconstruction process with the aim of strengthening it until 1980 ten years later, the construction of the Jewish Quarter, and the Ministry of Religions, which began digging around the mosque since 1972, so that the Imam can only reside in the prayers of noon and age.