Sabil Yusef Katkhuda
- Location:
It is located in Al-Tabanah Street next to the Ahmed Al-Mohmandar Mosque in the year 725 AH - 1334 AD, specifically in the corner of the street, and found on its façade constitutive texts, one in Turkish and the other in Arabic explaining who created this path.Accordingly, it appears to us from these two texts that the originator is Yusuf Aghau, as he used to act as a guardian in Egypt at that time and the date of construction for the way is 1088 ha.
It appears from the first text that came in the Turkish language and the way is surmounted by a book and attached to an agency, and this is confirmed in the document.
It appears from the first text that came in the Turkish language and the way is surmounted by a book and attached to an agency, and this is confirmed in the document.
The main interface of Sabil:
It's takes the corner of Al-Tabbaneh Street and opens it with two nets for the purpose, while a constructive shoulder is an obtuse angle that encloses in her head a corner pillar incorporated from
the same building material, in addition to two other columns at both ends of the facade.
Covering Al-Tasibel copper grilles, some of which contain the word Majesty God, are based on a copper arcade with arches to facilitate the movement of the drinking cups, and each window presents a marble slab that draws, of which only one half remains in front of the left window.
This top of each window of them is a straight lintel of buttoned cymbals, then another rectangular area below the front of the book in the middle of the right is a foundation plate topped by a simple wooden flap, on both sides of this plate are some ceramic tiles (faience), and the facade as a whole is devoid of decoration except for the playful pumice with hexagonal memes that surround With windows and doorstep.
On the left side, the facade ends with the entry block for the roadway, which is a rectangular entrance that retracts a little back from the front of the road and is mediated by the entrance door, which is surmounted by a lintel and a rusting necklace, then a rectangular window covered with wooden sticks, while its right side contains the entry door for the book that opens directly to the front of the wall, to Left and below the facade we find a small knotted opening dedicated to providing the tank with fresh water.
And we reach the road through the entrance block, which is located at the southern end of the way road, where a rectangular door leads to a vestibule distributed over the room and its accessories.
And we reach the road through the entrance block, which is located at the southern end of the way road, where a rectangular door leads to a vestibule distributed over the room and its accessories.
The Chamber of Sabil :
It is irregular in shape and approaches the quintet and can be divided into two parts:
Section One :
Square shape opens with an entry on the street with a width of 3 meters and a depth of 50 cm. It was used as a window for the purpose. This window corresponds to the other side. Just below the ceiling bumper
Section Two:
It takes the triangular body, which merges with the full width of one of its sides with the first section and the second side forms one of the sides of the five-component shape of the sabil room, while the third side opens onto the street with an entry used as the second window for the sabil.
The floor of the Sabil 's Chamber :
Covered with marble slabs that take different geometric shapes, we find large octagonal shapes and rhombuses in addition to the semi-octagonal shapes in the corners of the outer tires, all of which are white marble, identifying the previous shapes and surrounded by pieces of scrap marble in the form of triangles in black with smaller triangles in them and this floor In its collection, it is a beautiful shape although it is not authentic, as I found in the Antiquities Department an old picture drawn to the floor showing the ingenuity and creativity in the manufacture and decoration of marble floors and this coverage is a middle square consisting of star dishes from twelve Ribs half their quarters in the middle corners of the sides of the square, which is surrounded by a frame consisting of lozenges, and the stars are surrounded by half-stars,There are also other motifs with cross geometric lines forming small lozenges with smaller white squares on the inside.
Drinking basins:
The floor of each window window entrance was a drinking basin. One of them is still on the floor of the eastern window, which is still present, which is a large rectangular marble basin, but part of his letter adjacent to the floor is no longer present. In terms of length.
Al-Shazrawan:
This path is considered to be the oldest Ottoman ears, which contained one Shazrawan in front of each window, and this statement was confirmed by the document (....... and towards each window, from the inside, a seashore of engraved marble polished with gold .......),However, the rest is only one Shazrawan in front of the eastern window, which is a rectangular input surrounded by two octagonal columns with crowns and bulbous bases. This entry is crowned in its upper part by a pirated wooden cap, and in its lower part it contains a slab of marble slab that is tilted fixed to facilitate the movement and fluidity of the water on a surface The textures are decorated with a prominent triple botanical leaf and this plaque is surrounded by a wide frame of rectangular marble pieces that are diagonally fixed in traces.
Reading Chamber :
It is accessed from the door that is located in the northeastern end of the exterior facade of the road which leads to an ascending ladder that wraps around the descending room to lead left to the book room and then climbs up the other three steps to the right to a small square room that was probably designated as a toilet for children and the book room takes the same form of a room Tasbeel, but the square section of the Tasbeel room in the book became rectangular, and this book room overlooks the street with two rectangular entries headed by a wooden card.
This is the path and book of Yussef Agha known by the name of Muhammad Katkhada Al-Habashi as one of the most wonderful examples of the Turkish style coming to Egypt.
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