Banuna funerary enclosure

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

The funerary enclosure occupies a roughly square lot measuring approximately 21 x 21 metres. It faces streets on the southern, northern and western sides, and borders on neighbouring funerary enclosures on the eastern side. A single-storey building occupies the western side of the enclosure, the rest of the lot is an open courtyard, accessible through a gateway in the front building and through a secondary gate in the northern wall of the enclosure. The central part of the main (western) façade, the secondary gate, and the corners are built of ashlar stone masonry; other walls are built of coursed rough stone. The entrance door in the centre of the western façade is placed in a very flat projection slightly taller than the rest of the façade and topped with a simple muqarnas frieze carrying a cornice and stone fleur-de-lys crenellations.
The rectangular door is framed in very simple moulding and has an oval plaque above enclosed in stylised laurels. The two-leaved panelled door (now disused) is decorated with mafruka motifs. On each side of the entrance is a sabil window placed in a recess flanked by engaged colonnettes and topped with a simple muqarnas frieze and with stone ledges at the bottom, supported on simple corbels. The windows are fitted with simple wrought iron grilles decorated with generic motifs not related to Islamic art. The wooden shutters have their moulding-framed panels arranged in a simple decorative pattern.
In each of the side sections of the façade is a single rectangular window with a simple Classical cornice above. There are two windows in the side walls of the front building, plain and undecorated like the rest of the side façades. The undecorated secondary gate in the northern wall is covered with a segmental arch.
A single marble cenotaph stands in the south-eastern corner of the courtyard. The internal walls of the courtyard have recently been rendered with cement plaster. A door in the eastern wall of the enclosure leads to a small empty courtyard between two other, smaller funerary enclosures.
Over the southern sabil window and over the secondary gate are placed modern, apparently quite recent, small square plaques of local substitute for marble. They bear incised inscriptions of mediocre craftsmanship stating the funerary enclosure is of Banuna [family] and giving the date 1332 AH – AD 1910.