It is located west of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and its door looks north to the left of the exterior of Bab al-Silsila, one of the greatest Mamluk buildings in Jerusalem. Established by Prince Saif al-Din tetkes bin Abdullah al-Nasiri during the reign of Sultan Muhammad Bin Qalawun in (730 ah), the school forms a distinctive model for Mamluk schools, and is an integrated architectural complex, consisting of two floors, part of which is located on the Western portico, and consists of a school, a modern house, an orphanage, a Khanqah, and a Rabat for women.

The inscription above its northern entrance indicates the following in the name of Allah, the Merciful, the merciful, established this blessed place in the name of Allah's reward and forgiveness, the holy abode of the Royal Nazarene, Allah forgave him, and established it in the twenty-nine and seven months of the year".

Nasiri's emphasis on it also stopped many endowments to ensure their continuity,including the Al-Ain bath, Al-Shafa bath, Al-qattaneen market, ain qinia and others.

The Mamluk Sultans used to descend there when they visited Jerusalem.

Teaching in it continued until the late fifteenth century AD, where it was taken during the reign of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay as a Diwan for judges and deputies of Sharia.

Throughout the Ottoman era, it remained the seat of the Sharia court, and sentencing Sessions continued to be held there until it was moved to Naqshbandiya corner in (1941).

Haj Amin al-Husseini took part of it as his headquarters after the establishment of the Supreme Islamic Council, and in the Jordanian era it turned into a school to teach Islamic jurisprudence, and it continued until the Israeli occupation authorities took control of it, banned Muslims from entering it, turned it into the police station of the occupation border guards, in addition to a synagogue, and it was officially declared confiscated in 1990.