Hanifa Hanim al-Silahdar (assumed)

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

The funerary enclosure occupies a sizeable quadrilateral lot measuring approximately 32 x 20–40 metres, with southern, eastern and northern walls meeting at right angles, and the western wall oblique. It faces streets on the southern, western and northern sides, and borders on neighbouring funerary enclosure to the east. The corner where the western and northern walls meet at an obtuse angle is rounded and pierced with a large sabil window. It is rectangular, covered with a flat arch of joggled voussoirs, and flanked with two very simple pilasters carrying a simple Classical moulding. There are two similarly treated gates in the northern and western walls (the western one taller than the western wall, which is much lower than the buildings in the corners of the enclosure. Otherwise, there is no architectural decoration; the building hasn’t got a formally arranged façade. The sabil window had a marble ledge at the bottom supported on three muqarnas corbels. Only scarce remnants remain. The corbels, the joggled voussoirs, and an empty recess over the western gate are the only elements of the building related to Mamluk style. Right of the sabil window is a small wall fountain with a bronze spigot in a marble wall panel with rounded top that is set in a recess framed with simple moulding. The panel contains three lines of calligraphic inscription in raised relief. The text relates to the beneficence of water and includes the date 17 Gumada al-Thani 1333 AH. The windows in the southern elevation are rectangular, small and plain. There are clear traces of at least three large openings in the wall that have been walled up. The windows (including the sabil window) are fitted with simple decorative wrought iron grilles. The northern elevation is windowless. On the wall of the building in the north-eastern corner three huge panels in wooden frames are mounted (apparently later than the original construction.) They include hand-painted religious inscriptions in a trained, but not masterly hand.

Interior was inaccessible at the time of recording. According to the keeper, in the north-eastern chamber are three gilded marble cenotaphs.