Sabil Haseki Sultan
The Sabil Haseki Sultan ( Arabic سبيل خاصکى سلطان, DMG Sabil Haseki Sultan ) is an Ottoman fountain in the old city of Jerusalem .
Surname
The name سبيل خاصکى سلطان, DMG Sabil Haseki Sultan received the well (Sebil) because it is located in the courtyard of the Haseki Sultan Imaret . خاصکى سلطان İA Ḫāṣekī Sulṭān , German 'Favorite, Favorite Consort ' was the Ottoman title of the main wife of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleyman I. Her name was Aleksandra Lisowska, also known as Roxelane . She was the founder and ordered the construction of this facility.
geography
The Sabil Haseki Sultan ⊙ is located in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem . It is located in the courtyard of the Haseki Sultan Imaret. The Haseki Sultan Imaret ⊙ stands on the south side of the Aqbat at-Takija, 80 m west of its confluence with al-Wad Street . The north entrance of Haseki Sultan Imaret is located in the street Aqabat al-Takiyya ⊙ . The south entrance is in the street Aqabat al-Saraya (German: Platz des Regierenden) ⊙ .
description
The sable is in the courtyard at the end of a wide staircase leading downwards. It has 4 faucets in flat marble niches that are set into a wall. These marble niches are the only decorations on this sable. Behind the wall there is a cistern , the height of which extends over two floors. The sable has no inscription.
Water supply
The well was supplied from the cistern behind it . It is believed that this cistern held 14,500 liters of water. Rainwater was collected for the cistern. There was also a canal from the Sultan Basin to this cistern. Another channel connected this cistern to the Sabil an-Nazir .
history
The Sabil Haseki Sultan was built in 1552 together with the Haseki Sultan Imaret. It was built as a Sabil-Kuttab, i.e. H. as a fountain in connection with a Koran school . He had a water supply on the upper floor where the school was. The lower four taps at the top of the stairs served as water dispensers for the public.
It was part of a larger system of about a dozen wells that were built during the Ottoman period. These fountains were built along the pilgrimage route to the haram and near its gates . They provided the residents and pilgrims with drinking water free of charge.
literature
- Anthony Assetto, Cassidy Hobbs, Joshua Lessard, Judith Bing: Ottoman Sabils of Jerusalem , Drexel University, 2010 online, pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Ottoman Sabils of Jerusalem at drexel.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ↑ The "Ottoman Fountain" in Jerusalem at theologische-links.de. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ Amy Singer: Serving Up Charity: The Ottoman Public Kitchen , 2005, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History , Volume 35, pp. 482–494 online, PDF at mitpressjournals.org. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ↑ Oded Peri: Waqf and Ottoman Welfare Policy, The poor kitchen of Hasseki Sultan in eighteenth-century Jerusalem , 1989, in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. XXXV, pp. 167-186 online, PDF, download possible or online and PDF download . Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ↑ Sabil Haseki Sultan at OSM. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ↑ Max Küchler : Jerusalem: A manual and study travel guide to the Holy City. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-50170-2 , p. 536.
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