Funerary enclosure of Kazaruni Family

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

An irregular lot tapering towards west, with the perimeter wall forming a large quarter-circle in the north-eastern corner, with the entrance gate in the middle of the circle. By the southern wall stands an elongated, very simple building with no decoration, constructed of dressed stone in courses of uneven height and plastered. Its plain windows have simple decorative wrought-iron grilles. In the south-western corner of the lot is an enclosure with open arcade of pointed [? – interior inaccessible] arches to the northern side and a similar arch in the eastern wall where it protrudes in front of the abutting building. The eastern half of the enclosure is roofed, the western part is open to the sky and contains a single huge cenotaph. The perimeter wall (i.e., the northern wall with the circular north-eastern section, and the part of the western wall north of the enclosure in south-western corner) appears to be a remodelling that resulted from a change in street layout. This wall is built in sections separated by pillars of dressed stone topped with “pomegranate” bulbs. The base courses and the upper courses of the wall are also in well-dressed stone, while the sections between the pillars are panels of uncoursed masonry of huge irregularly polygonal rough stones with raised joints in cement mortar. The entrance gate is in neo-Mamluk forms extremely simplified into geometric “cubist” forms. It has an undecorated pointed arch filled with a ma’muni mashrabiya grille (i.e., composed of huge, thick simple turned-wood pieces in a square pattern) over the door lintel which is a huge monolithic block of marble and bears the Kazaruni family name in Persian-style calligraphy. The entrance door is decorated with a simple geometric mafruka-based pattern of lath nailed to a plywood board. There is a simple rectangular undecorated door in the western façade.