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Creation Year
1977
Image ID
A.076
Alternate Identifier
B01.076
Subcollection
A: Jerusalem
Abstract
Detail of the south façade of the Madrasa Is'ardiyya.
Description
A view of the elevation of the southern façade, showing the central assembly hall and the eastern bay 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.
Image Notes
Photograph created 1977. Photograph processed April 1977. Formerly cataloged as B01.076. No notes written on the slide or index.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine
Keywords
Madrasa Is’ardiyya, Madrasa, Facade, Bifora, Muqarnas, Dome, Bulbous Dome, Fourteenth Century, Mamluk
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