Unit No8

Husayn Sharaf Musa Sherif (assumed)

Coordinates of the main entrance	30.044742N - 31.273925E
Attribution	Husayn Sharaf Musa Sherif (assumed)
Higri (AH)Dates as given in the Inscription
Miladi (AD)Dates as given in the Inscription
Inscription Contemporary with the building?	Yes
Multiple date(s) In the inscription?	Yes
Assumed Date	Before AD 1924
Based on	written on cenotaph
Original Use	Funerary enclosure
Current Use	Funerary enclosure and storage space
Overall condition	Fair

Features of unit 8

	Present	Count	Material	Comments (see description for details)
Free standing structure	No
Walled enclosure	Yes	1
Rooms by the perimeter wall	Yes	4	stone & wood	Wooden burial chamber by the perimeter wall
Freestanding structure(s) in enclousure	Yes
Dome over the tomb chamber	No
Neo-Mamluk architectural decoration	No
Garden layout	No
Sabil(s)	No
Wall fountain(s)	No
Canopy on columns / pillars	No
Carved marble cenotaph(s)	Yes	2	2	Two undecorated cenotaphs
Decorated limestone tomb-markers	No
Decorated gateway	Yes	1	stone & wood
Decorative door-leaves	Yes	6	wood	Also 8 undecorated door leaves
Decorative window grilles	Yes	6	steel	Two non-decorative grilles
Decorative shutters	No			Twenty-one non-decorative shutters
Painted ceiling(s)	No
Decorative paving(s)	Yes	1	cement tiles

Unusual or unique features

• An openwork wooden structure with a skylight constitutes the burial chamber

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

A small stone-walled funerary enclosure. The main façade faces north and is symmetrically composed with a gateway in a flat projection in the centre that rises above the façade level placed between two undecorated windows with plain wooden louvre shutters. The entrance door is rectangular, covered by a flat arch with joggled voissoirs (posssibly imitated in plaster) and features two-leaved wooden door with elaborate decoration of neo-classical motifs. There is an intermediate moulding above the windows and on a slightly higher level above the door. The façade is topped by crenellations of complex fleur-de-lys profile and terminates to the west (right) with an engaged semi-column with no capital reaching the level of the middle cornice, while the enclosure wall continues further west. The gateway leads through a small vestibule to the courtyard by the northern side of which is a residential room with adjoining bathroom and kitchen. A western entrance leads to a north room, an adjoining bathroom and kitchen on the S.W. side, and a courtyard. In the north-western corner of the courtyard is a wooded burial chamber with a skylight. Above the panelled base section, its walls are made of mashrabiya turned-wood panels, and in the upper section, of wooden geometric openwork integrated with an elaborate cornice. The chamber contains a simple marble cenotaph on which an inscription states that Husayn Sharaf Mustafa Sherif who died in 1924 is buried there along with three other people, the last deceased in 1962. A simple metal shed on the southern side of the courtyard shelters a simple marble cenotaph and a cover of another crypt.