It is located north of the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, and stretches from Bab al-Asbat to the site of the former Friday market.It is believed that the one who created it was Prince qansuh Al-yahyawi, Kafel Al-Diyar Al-Shamiya in 1467 ad).

In the Jordanian era, a fence was erected on both sides of the street south and East, and the cemetery reconstruction committee of the Jerusalem Islamic Endowments Department paved its corridors in 2002, and a solid fence was built over the Jordanian fence with funding from the Turkish government between 2009 and 2012