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Mostly , the drinking fountain - was attached before the " Othmani age "
to the Mosque or to school or to Khanka and was rarely found separate as there are
six (6) separate examples from the "Mamluki age " . |
Drinking Fountain
Design :
The first drinking fountain to which elementary school is
attached as an integral architectural unit was beside Aksanker's Mosque [747 - 748
Hijria / 1346 - 1347 A.D ] currently does not exist , then the drinking and
elementary school one of the architectural elements of which the school's
design or Khanka - is consisted . It had occupied a major place which is the building's
corner , in addition too this the drinking fountain beside the entrance that is
directly opened on the house's main hall or has as a door in the beginning of
corridor that leads to dish , in order to facilitate the water transferee to it .
showing the drinking fountain as an important element in the Mosque or school or Khanka ,
by treating its walls differs than treating the rest of the building's walls as panoply it
with colored marble [ Black and White as in the one existed in Faraji Ben Barkouk's Mosque
, and with changing the space of holes in it regarding the rest holes in the building in
addition to this the elementary school's terrace in many examples and woods are used as an
construction stuffs in the building.
The elementary school's front ends with a decorated
wooden drip to protect holes of the elementary schools of sun and rain . Drinking fountain
and elementary school are shown in the front as an integral one unit so as the elementary
school was mostly called in the documents [ office of the drinking fountain ]
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| The ground of "El- Sabeel's rooms are covered
with colored marble with engineered shapes while the walls are covered with colored marble
and the wooden ceiling is decorated , colored , gold plated plated before the drinking
fountain's window from the outside there is a bar of rotten stone or of marble that
carries stones cables upon which glasses of cooper that are linked with chains in spikes
of the drinking fountain's window.These spikes are made of iron and some time covered with
golden cooper foils or made of golden iron as hanged wooden ceiling were used in some
drinking fountain that shows the engineer's sensitivity in studying the internal space as
well as the height's relation with the room's tablet. |
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In some drinking fountains " Shazoran " and
"Salsabeel " as a symbolic similarity to the eye exists in paradise " Sura
El - Ensan " Aya (18) . The water fall on the drinking fountain which is decorated
with prognathic waves surrounded with plant drawings and images of animals that indicate
to the viewer when water falls on fresh cool water as if the water for a current eye
afterwards , the water gather in basins of marble or Albaster . The movement of water for
long distances and being expose to air helping on its coolness and being drinkable [El-
Ghori's drinking fountain in Al- Azhar (909 - 910 Hijria / 1504 - 1505 A.D ] . |
| According to what came in Sultan Faraj Ben
Barkouk's document , it is apparent that service in the drinking fountain starts from
sunrise to sunset . In Ramadan after sunset to down persons are authorized to serve in the
drinking fountain . |
The document stated that the
Sanitary conditions that should exist to maintain the place clean as well as the used
tools. |
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Elementary Schools:
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Above the drinking fountain is the elementary school . The
drinking fountain's office which is a school in which children learn memorizing Quran ,
writing and reading . |
The elementary school is a large room that has a line
covered with a wooden drip . The line is carried on Rawashin and has a balustrade of
wooden stock . Enough quantity of natural light were taken care of inside the elementary
School through regulating big knotted hoots in its external walls . |
