Reason for the name
It was named after Princess Turkan Khatoon, the daughter of Prince Taktai, son of Seljukai, the Uzbek she built.
Builder
Princess "Turkan Khatun" the daughter of Prince Taktai bin Seljukai.
This turba is rich in decorative paintings overlooking Bab Al-Silsila Street, the façade built of white stones that turned gray to weather.
The facade divided into two symmetrical sections, the bottom section of each section is rectangular, the window of stone thresholds, placed above it a rectangular stone fill carved with engraved geometric motifs and vegetative.
It topped by a square stone plate with similar motifs, the most important characteristic of the Khatun turba is its main southern facade, which overlooks the Bab Al-Silasah road, which expresses the Mameluke architecture.
the facade takes the shape of the rectangle, with two rectangular windows and two iron windows, marble decorated with fine geometric motifs, with a commemorative marble inscription bearing the name of the stand and the year of construction.
The turba consists of two parts from the inside, the first is the south, which is a square room topped by a dome based on mural, in a it is a floral and geometric decoration similar to the existing artistic elements in the façade.
The richness of these decorations reflects the price origin of this turba, and it is not possible to enter the turba to see a small niche with a shallow cavity and its energy in which there are fighting decorations inside the turba.
This land belongs to the woman Khatun in Turkish, the daughter of one of the princes of the Uzbeks.
She is the descendant of one of the Islamic families who ruled in the east of the Islamic world known as the Golden Horn, Turkan Khatoun seems to have wanted to live in the city, jerusalem in this turba for which it was built in the belief in the status of religious Jerusalem as the land of the besieged and published.
There is a great possibility that Torkan had passed on Jerusalem during the performance of the pilgrimage, and then decided to settle.
History
In the Mameluke era (753 AH / 1352 AD).