Ibrahim Mahmud

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

The funerary enclosure occupies an elongated lot measuring originally approximately 22 x 2.5 – 6 metres, with the entrance in the longer southern side. The entrance leads to a courtyard with a room on each shorter side. The eastern one measures only about 5 x 2.5 – 3 metres. The slightly larger western one is roofless. It appears that originally it included a separate entrance between two windows in the enclosure’s western wall. It was turned into an internal door when a narrow room was added to the enclosure on the western side. The long single-storey façade is very simple and strictly symmetrical, with three windows on each side of the entrance door. The windows are set in long undecorated recesses in the walls. All the openings (in the façade and internal) are rectangular and plain, covered with monolithic stone lintels with relieving arches above them built of angularly joggled voussoirs. The quality of stone masonry is very high.
In the windows are grilles made of sections of steel pipes (apparently, water- or gas conduits) joint by threaded four-way joining pieces. The two windows belonging to the eastern room have simple louvre shutters. It is not clear if similar ones were ever installed in the window of the western room, and it appears that it was never roofed. In the entrance gate is a modern steel door. The lower part of the walls have been faced with high quality ceramic cladding imitating brick, apparently as a countermeasure against damage from rising damp. Right of the main entrance a huge modern marble panel with an incised inscription informing that the funerary complex is of the family of Ibrahim Mahmud and his children.