This minaret is located in the southwestern corner of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, close to the Mughrabi Gate, and specifically above the northwest end of the Women's Mosque. The city of Jerusalem, who supervised its construction and the construction of the honorary school near it in the year 677 AH - 1278 AD.

This minaret was built without a foundation, and it is the smallest minaret of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with a height of only 23.5 meters. The upper part of it was exposed to a crack in the earthquake of 1341 AH - 1922 AD, so the Supreme Islamic Council demolished it and rebuilt it in the same year in a beautiful style, and a dome was placed for it over the upper square that did not exist before, and the Committee for the Reconstruction of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque recently restored it and covered its dome with lead.

The minaret today is ascended to it from the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by 50 steps, and it stands in front of the Islamic Museum (formerly the Moroccan Mosque).

For many years, the venerable minaret has struggled with the attempts of the occupiers to silence the call to prayer in it, claiming that it disturbs them, which forced the Islamic Endowment Administration in Jerusalem to adjust the position of the speakers in it so that they turn inside Al-Aqsa and reduce their volume, to deprive the residents of the village of Silwan, located south of Al-Aqsa Mosque from hearing its adhan.