‘Abd al-Mone‘im al-‘Ayyat and/or his mother Zeinab Muhammad

Description (The direction towards Mecca (Qibla) is described as eastern and other directions are named accordingly)

Most of the rectangular lot with the shorter side facing the street is built up, with a small courtyard in the north-eastern corner. The main (south) façade is built of ashlar stone faces a short, narrow lane closed by a gate where it branches off the Sultan Ahmad Street. The south-western corner is rounded and contains a sabil, which is now partially blocked by a structure built on the neighbouring lot. The straight part of the southern façade is tripartite, divided by simple rusticated pilasters with muqarnas corbels in place of capitals. The corbels carry stone blocks aligned with the course under the cornice on top of the wall and above an elaborate three-tiered muqarnas frieze. The frieze is therefore divided into sections that look like flat hoods of rectangular full-height recesses in which windows were typically placed in Mamluk-period mosques. The axis of the façade is ingeniously marked with a wider muqarnas niche with an additional muqarnas unit above. A further section of the muqarnas frieze continues over the rounded corner that contains the sabil window. The façade is topped with elaborate fleur-de-lys crenellation copying the style of late Mamluk buildings from the reign of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri. The upper part of the front façade is a tall parapet wall. The undecorated side elevations, built of rough stone, plastered and and topped with a cornice identical with this of the front façade, are much lower.
The entrance gate, the window left of it and the sabil window are topped with a typically Circassian Mamluk arrangement of a rectangular panel of knotted mouldings that frames the lintel and above it a flat arch of stepped voussoirs with the intrados forming a segmental relieving arch over the lintel. The left section of the tripartite façade features an unusual small quatrefoil window, and above it, an empty rectangular panel framed with a moulding. The relieving arches over all the openings in the front façade are decorated with ceramic tiles of a simple geometric pattern not directly related to Islamic art. Over the entrance gate is a marble panel with a calligraphic inscription in raised relief stating the name of the interred person and the date.
The interior was inaccessible at the time of recording.