Fountain of Qayt Bay

Coordinates: 31°46′39″N 35°14′04″E / 31.77750°N 35.23444°E / 31.77750; 35.23444
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The fountain, with the Uthmaniyya Madrasa behind
View from the southwest, 1919

Fountain of Qayt Bay (

Mamluks of Egypt, it was completed in the reign of Sultan Qaytbay, after whom it is named. It is also colloquially known as the Fountain of Hamidiye due to Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s restoration.[2] It has been considered, "after the Dome of the Rock, the most beautiful edifice in the Haram".[3]

History

The fountain/sabil was originally built in 1455 on the orders of the

Burji Mamluk architecture of Qaytbay's period. In 1882-83, the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II restored the fountain and made some additions to it.[4]
The fountain which is still used continues to provide visitors to the al-Haram al-Sharif with fresh water.

Architecture

The Islamic heritage of Jerusalem was maintained by the successor to the Prophet, caliphs, begin with, such as Umar and Abd al-Malik, but also by sultans the likes of Salah al-Din, al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad, and Qayt Bay, and viceroys such as al-Amir al-Nashashibi. Evidence of these rulers' veneration for Quds is found not only in their exploits as recorded by Mujir al-Din but also in the institutions they founded and patronized, the monuments that survive.[8] The one of that is the Fountain of Qayt Bay.

Placed on a raised prayer platform, together with a freestanding

Qur'anic verses, details of the original Mamluk building and the 1883 renovation of the structure. Mamluk-era star-pattern strap work details the building interior, but the external lintels are from the Ottoman era of rule in Palestine.[3] The 1883 renovation largely kept Qaitbay's structure mostly intact.[1][10]

The fountain is dated by an inscription band which goes around the top of the all four sides of the facade. The date is further verified by the writing of the historian, Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali (d. 928 / 1521) who describes the works of Sultan Qaytbay in Quds.[7]

Environs

It sits on a maṣṭaba (elevated platform) called Maṣṭabat Sabīl Qāītbay.

It is north of the an-Nāranj Pool and Fountain of Qasim Pasha.

It is between the Ablution Gate (to its west) and western colonnade (east)

The

Ashrafiyya and Uthmaniyya
Madrasas are also to its west.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Sabil al-Sultan Qāʼit Bāy". Archnet Digital Library. Archived from the original on 16 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. ISBN 9786050824254
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  3. ^ a b Murphy-O'Connor, Jeremiah. (2008). The Holy Land: An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700. Oxford University Press US, pp.98-99.
  4. ^ a b ÇAM, Mevlüt. "Tarihçe-i Harem-i Şerîf-i Kudsî". Vakıflar Dergisi. 48: 198.
  5. ^ Frenkel, Yehoshua. "Awqāf in Mamluk Bilād al-Shām". Mamlūk Studies Review the Middle East Documentation Center the University of Chicago. 13 (1): 1–218.
  6. ^ Blair, Sheila S.; Bloom, Jonathan (1995). The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. pp. 92–93.
  7. ^ a b c "Discover Islamic Art - Virtual Museum - monument_ISL_pa_Mon01_18_en". islamicart.museumwnf.org. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  8. JSTOR 604667
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  9. ^ a b Peterson, Andrew. (1996). Dictionary of Islamic architecture. Routledge, p.136.
  10. ISBN 9780300111958
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Bibliography

External links

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