Shaykh Mustafa Mahmud

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

A small single-store building on a rectangular (almost square) plan, measuring approximately 6 x 7 metres, with the main entrance from the street in the northern wall, with a small lighting shaft / courtyard in the south-eastern corner. It appears that the current structure is a subdivision of an originally larger funerary courtyard (probably measuring approximately 12 x 27 metres.) A door in the southern wall of the building leads to an open courtyard containing tomb markers, from which apparently other subdivision were also carved out along the street. The main (northern) façade and parts of the eastern wall are built of ashlar stone masonry, the back and western façades of rubble stone. The façade is simple, with the entrance door covered with a segmental arch placed of-centre towards the west and flanked with flat pilasters without capitals that carry a simple cornice. Over the door is a calligraphic inscription in raised relief on a marble panel, with a supplication for God’s mercy upon Shaykh Mustafa Mahmud and giving the date of his death as 1322 AH [corresponding to AD 1904]. To the left of the door is a huge undecorated rectangular window with a lintel formed by a flat arch of huge joggled voissoirs. The window is fitted with wooden louvre shutters. In the narrower bay to the right of the door is a small rectangular window apparently of a service room. The façade is crowned by simple stone fleur-de-lys crenellation.
The interior was inaccessible at the time of recording.