Detail of the south façade of the Madrasa Is'ardiyya.
A view of the eastern bay of the south façade of the Madrasa Is’ardiyya (full view in A.74). The building was commissioned by a wealthy merchant with the name Majd al-Din al-Isardi, and the earliest date the building is known to have existed is 1345 AD. It may have functioned both as a madrasa (religious school) and a khanqah (Sufi hospice). The façade was reconstructed during a restoration in 1927-28, and very little remains of the original. A bifora (double window) rests on a bulbous-base and muqarnas-capital columns. The extrados of the double arch is outlined by a molding which rises up to frame three oculi/medallions in ablaq (striped) masonry. The two lateral oculi are semicircular while the central one is circular. This is topped by a three-tiered muqarnas canopy and a dome on top.
Photograph created 1977. Photograph processed April 1977. Formerly cataloged as B01.075. No notes written on the slide or index.
