Hasanein Salman al-Hamami

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

A two-storied building standing in the row of funerary structures facing the Salah Salem Road and built of rough stone. The front façade is covered with brick lining. In the centre is the entrance gate built of ashlar stone, in a very simple rusticated architectural framing, covered with a segmental arch of joggled voussoirs, with a simple decorative wrought-iron grille in the upper part (the modern welded steel door loosely imitates the motifs). Above the door is a small calligraphic panel with name of the deceased and date. To the left is an undecorated rectangular window, and to the right, a very low secondary door with a simple wrought-iron grille in the upper part. The upper storey is plastered, with divisions into huge square panels marked by incised lines in the plaster, and features a rectangular projection over the entrance gate with windows on three sides. There is an undecorated rectangular window to the left of the projection and a small square one to the right.
The entrance gate leads to a vestibule separated by a very elaborate full-height mashrabiya turned-wood screen from the main burial chamber in the north-eastern corner of the building. The chamber contains a rather simple stone cenotaph decorated with calligraphic inscriptions (incised, not in raised relief.) There is a band of Qur’anic inscriptions painted around the walls at breast height in bold calligraphic lettering.
Also from the vestibule are accessible: a secondary burial chamber; a service room; and a staircase in the south-western corner. The stairs are constructed of interlocking sections of segmental vaults built of flat limestone slabs, which is a method of construction consistently used in Cairo since the Mamluk times in at least 15th century. The upper floor comprises three rooms and a lobby that ends in the bay-window projection.