Al-Uthmaniyya Madrasa (Jerusalem)

The ʿUthmāniyya Madrasa (Arabic: المدرسة العثمانية al-Madrasa al-ʿUthmāniyya) is a historic school in Jerusalem.

[7][8] A defter written soon after 1540, in the early Ottoman era, noted that Kafr Qara was the only Palestinian endowment for the school.

During the era when the school's name was recorded, it was extremely rare for Ottoman subjects who were not actual members of the House of Osman to be called ʿUthmānī.

[1] On the ground floor, there is from north to south along the Haram side: first a tomb chamber, then a courtyard, then the "lower mosque".

The tomb chamber has an entrance from the north side, that is from the Zuqāq Bāb al-Maṭhara, an no-exit alley.

The construction of this blessed madrasa was ordered by the noble and honorable Lady Isfahan Shah Khatun, the daughter of the late Amir Mahmud, al-ʿUthmaniyya, known as khanum (may God show her His benevolence).

Its construction was completed at the close of the aforementioned year through the efforts of Khawaja Jamiʿ, son of Sati, from Asia Minor [al-Rūmī].

[citation needed] To its north is Zuqāq Bāb al-Maṭhara (a short alley), leading to the Ablution Gate in the east.

1893: with the Qaytbay Fountain in the front, to the left [ 15 ]