Northern frontage around Faisal Gate: the Aminiyya Madrasa extends above the gate, with the Basitiyya to the right.Photograph · 2019-10-14 10:04:44
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Overview
Seven named foundations reveal how teaching, residence and the sanctuary’s northern boundary were connected. [3][4]
The northern portico supports and adjoins a dense sequence of educational foundations. Their rooms, courtyards and entrances occupy different levels; the Aminiyya and Farisiyya even overlap within one built complex. [3][4]
These foundations belong to the wider Mamluk investment in learning around Al-Aqsa. Read them as individual institutions within a shared edge: their founders, dates and building forms differ. [8]
Details & spaces
Explore the named elements associated with this place.
Al-Duwaydariyya
المدرسة الدويدارية
A school and Sufi lodge associated with Sanjar al-Duwaydar in 1295, beside Faisal Gate. Its entrance is decorated with muqarnas. [1]
Al-Basitiyya
المدرسة الباسطية
A foundation beside the Duwaydariyya, endowed by Abd al-Basit in the early fifteenth century. Awqaf describes three rooms and an open court, with teaching in hadith, Qur’an and Shafi‘i law. [2]
Al-Aminiyya
المدرسة الأمينية
A two-storey foundation dated by Awqaf to 730 AH, overlooking the northern portico. Its structure is interwoven with the Farisiyya above. [3]
Al-Farisiyya
المدرسة الفارسية
Endowed in 755 AH by Emir Faris. A pointed-arch entrance leads to a courtyard; a stair connects the structure with the neighboring Aminiyya. [4]
Al-Malikiyya
المدرسة الملكية الجوكندرية
Awqaf dates this northern foundation to 741 AH. Red and white entrance stonework leads through a vestibule to a small open courtyard and surrounding rooms. [5]
Al-Asardiyya
المدرسة الأسعردية
A two-storey foundation with three domes and a court, at the western end of the northern portico’s school sequence. Awqaf distinguishes its 1358 construction from its 1368 endowment. [6]
Al-Jawiliyya
المدرسة الجاولية
Associated with Sanjar al-Jawli’s Mamluk endowment, this complex occupies the raised rocky ground near Ghawanima. Its south-facing rooms overlook the sanctuary. [7]
PASSIA · Jerusalem Awqaf · Hashemite Fund · Printed pp. 54–65; map legend on PDF page 35
Consulted 2026-10-13
Custodial guide from an Islamic perspective. Used for the baseline inventory and schematic relative positions; its access descriptions are historical, not live advice.
About this record
Relative positions are illustrative; this is a heritage atlas, not a walking route or live access map.
This is an explicitly grouped page, not a claim that seven foundations form one school. The map point marks the northern family of buildings rather than a single entrance.
