Funerary enclosure of al-Basusi Family

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

A rectangular freestanding walled enclosure (i.e. with streets to all four sides) measuring about12.5 x 15 m, with the main entrance façade facing west. There are two small rooms by the perimeter wall in the north-eastern and north-western corners of the enclosure. They are plain and undecorated, covered with wooden roofs with beams visible from below. In the middle of a symmetrical front façade built of ashlar stone, the block of the entrance portal protrudes slightly and is slightly higher that the W wall. It has a pointed-arch gate framed with a raised rectangular-profile frame set in a shallow pointed-arched recess, over which are similar undecorated frames around the spandrels with plain raised panels (possibly the gate is unfinished and a planned moulding was never carved?) The portal is rather squat in proportions. Over the portal is an empty sunken panel with the sides shaped like a typical Mamluk inscription panel. It is partially covered with a huge modern marble plaque with the name of the Basusi family. On each side of the portal is a rectangular window set in a shallow rectangular recess topped with a two-tiered band of simple muqarnas. The lintels are flat arches of simple joggled voussoirs and are framed by raised rectangular-profile frames. In the chamfered south-western corner is a small, shallow rectangular empty niche – possibly another indication that the building was never completed as planned.