A.075 Detail of Facade of Madrasa Is’ardiyya

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Creator

Denis Baly

Creation Year

1977

Image ID

A.075

Alternate Identifier

B01.075

Subcollection

A: Jerusalem

Abstract

Detail of the south façade of the Madrasa Is'ardiyya.

Description

A view of the eastern bay of the south façade of the Madrasa Is’ardiyya (full view in A.74). 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). The façade was reconstructed during a restoration in 1927-28, and very little remains of the original. A bifora (double window) rests on a bulbous-base and muqarnas-capital columns. The extrados of the double arch is outlined by a molding which rises up to frame three oculi/medallions in ablaq (striped) masonry. The two lateral oculi are semicircular while the central one is circular. This is topped by a three-tiered muqarnas canopy and a dome on top.

Image Notes

Photograph created 1977. Photograph processed April 1977. Formerly cataloged as B01.075. No notes written on the slide or index.

Image Format

35 mm slide

Geographic Reference

Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine