Muhammad Ahmad Effendi

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

Small slightly irregular rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 12.5 x 8 metres, with a rectangular annexe to the east and another enclosure measuring ca 8 x 5 metres attached to the north. There is a small single-storey building by the southern wall, consisting of an entrance hall in the eastern part and a room in the western part. The western part of the courtyard was covered with a lightweight wooden pergola (apparently with an octagonal roof lantern), of which scant remnants remain. In the middle of the main courtyard stands a cenotaph with calligraphic inscription panels in raised relief to its sides. The two shahid stelae are detached and stored in the courtyard. In the small back northern courtyard are two simple tomb markers.
The simple entrance gate is on the eastern side of the southern elevation. It is well-built of ashlar stone. The rectangular door is covered with a monolithic marble lintel, over which is a relieving arch. The lintel and arch are framed in knotted mouldings that end with complex eight-pointed star shapes typical of late-Ottoman period architecture in Cairo. On the lintel is a projecting carved panel with Ottoman-style motifs to the sides, and with a rectangular inscription panel in raised relief carved into it in the middle, giving the name Muhammad Ahmad Effendi and the date AH 1317. The incisions on the panel indicate that it was originally intended to include two lines of inscription in separate round-ended panels, which would give it a more Ottoman-like appearance. On the keystone of the relieving arch is a carved ornament with a five-pointed star at the top. It is obscured by a crudely mounted modern marble panel (undated) with an incised inscription referring to Muhammad Ahmad’s daughters. The steel door leaves are modern.
In the room in the south-western corner of the enclosure is a huge plain rectangular window in each western and southern wall, with non-decorative steel grilles and simple paneled shutters.
Save the entrance gate, the structure is built of rough stone, with external walls unplastered.