Ahmad ‘Abd al-Wahab al-Shanuani

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

A rectangular enclosure (measuring ca 25 x 32 metres), with western and southern façades facing surrounding streets, with a narrow back alley to the east, and bordering on an adjacent enclosure to the south. The main (entrance) façade faces west, i.e., is on Sultan Ahmad Street. The front part of the lot is taken by a building on a U-shaped plan, with a centrally placed gateway leading from the street to the courtyard on which it opens with a wide arch. In the back part of the lot, there is a narrower building by the northern wall, separated from the front one by another gateway leading to the courtyard from the street to the north, and on the southern side, a roofed burial area opening onto the courtyard, with the roof supported on slender wooden pillars and separated from the courtyard by a simple iron fence. There was originally a gate leading to the courtyard directly from the alley to the east, which is now walled up. There are wooden pergolas along the eastern and northern sides of the courtyard, in in the middle of its western part (now dilapidated and incomplete). There are planted greenery and potted plants in the courtyard.
The front of the roofed burial area has wooden openwork panels in the upper part, with openwork wooden corbels under the beams between the posts and under the overhanging eave. The roof over the burial area is plain, with exposed wooden beams.
In the western part of the burial area is a richly carved marble cenotaph dated 1326 AH / AD 1908. In the eastern part is a simple marble cenotaph of apparently recent date, with incised inscriptions and with simple incised decoration of floral arabesque (possibly a computer-generated pattern).
The corners of the enclosure, gates, base course and cornice are built of ashlar stone, the rest of the walls are constructed of rough stone and plastered.
In the front façade there are four huge, plain rectangular windows fitted with simple louvre shutters and simple decorative wrought iron grilles, and in the middle, the entrance portal. It is taller than the rest of the façade, with a wide rectangular entrance door set in a shallow recess topped with a muqarnas frieze. The lintel of the door, which is a monolithic limestone block, and the relieving arch above it are framed in simple knotted mouldings. There are no crenellations neither over the portal, nor the rest of the facades. The portal is the only neo-Mamluk element in the building. The double-leaved entrance door has very elaborate decorative panelling; the arch above is filled with a simple decorative wrought iron grille.
The northern façade has the entrance gate placed slightly off-centre, with six windows to the right (west) of it and two windows to the left. The entrance gate is topped with a boldly rusticated semi-circular arch, with two-leaved wooden door with decorative wrought-iron grilles in their panels and a simple decorative wrought iron grille in the arch above.