Muhammad Khairallah

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

A small rectangular enclosure measuring ca 12 x 19 metres, facing streets to the north and west and adjoining neighbouring structures to the east and north. The entrance façade faces north.
The unit comprises a small single storey building in the western part, and an open courtyard that occupies the eastern part of the site. The front building comprises six rooms. The entrance portal and the section left of it containing a sabil window, the base course, the corners and the cornice are built of ashlar stone; the rest of the walls are constructed of rough stone and plastered. The building is topped with a simple Classical cornice, with no traces of crenellations.
The entrance portal forms a pishtaq taller than the rest of the walls. The entrance door is set in a shallow rectangular recess covered with a three-tiered muqarnas frieze. Around the recess runs the band of knotted mouldings; on the sides are elongated vertical panels framed in knotted mouldings that appear like their upper parts were intended to be carved into bands of floral decoration, but were apparently never completed. Around the lintel of the door and its relieving arch and under the muqarnas (i.e., around the inscription panel over the door) are also plain bands and blocks of masonry that appear to be unfinished mouldings. To the left (east) of the portal is s narrow sabil window (now walled up with bricks) flanked by engaged colonnettes with simple muqarnas capitals and covered with a stone lintel supported on simple corbels. In the window is a very simple decorative grille welded from pieces if rolled iron. Above the window is a roundel with a Qur’anic inscription carved into the surface of the wall. It imitates the form of the blazons with royal titles (rank) that were used on buildings founded by Mamluk sultans (examples abound in the neighbourhood.) Over the roundel is an inscription panel that includes the date AH 1312. Another inscription carved over the entrance door includes the name Muhammad Khairallah and the date AH 1321. The portal and the sabil door are the only elements of the building in neo-Mamluk style. They follow the mediaeval Mamluk patterns quite closely, while the quality of craftsmanship is good, but not outstanding, and overall, the unit is a modest one.
There is a plain rectangular window with a simple, non-decorative iron grille and simple panelled shutters to the right (west) of the portal, and two more such windows in the plain western façade, which is undecorated save a simple cornice. In the eastern part of the entrance façade is a plain rectangular door leading to the courtyard. Both entrances are fitted with modern steel doors of crude simple decorative designs.