Haseki Sultan Imaret
Jerusalem, Israel
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
The Haseki Sultan Imaret was an Ottoman public soup kitchen in Jerusalem, established during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. It formed part of a large waqf complex built in 1552 by Haseki Hürrem Sultan, better known in the West as Roxelana, the favorite wife of Sultan Suleiman I, and was said to have fed at least 500 people twice a day. The building is now destroyed.
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- Type
- imaret, destroyed building or structure, historic building
- Place
- Jerusalem, Israel
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