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Creation Date
1977
Image ID
A.074
Subcollection
A
Image Notes
Photograph created 1977. Photograph processed April 1977. Formerly cataloged as B01.074. No notes written on the slide or index.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Jerusalem, Israel
Description
074- This is the north end of the Haram al-Sharif showing the façade of the Madrasa Is’ardiyya. The building was commissioned by a wealthy merchant with the name Majd al-Din al-Isardi, and the earliest date the building is known to have existed is 1345 AD. It may have functioned both as a madrasa (religious school) and a khanqah (Sufi hospice).
Keywords
Jerusalem, Israel
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