This dome is located inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, to the southeast of Bab Faisal, and its construction dates back to the era of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmoud II, specifically in the year 1233 AH / 1817 AD, and for this reason it is also known as the Iwan of Sultan Mahmoud. the second. As for its current name, its source is the habit of some Sufi sheikhs gathering to mention under it.

It is a square-shaped building with a side length of 7 meters, based on four corner pillars surmounted by four pointed arches surmounted by a shallow dome.

The building has open sides, and it has a beautiful hollow stone mihrab, which seems to have been added in a later period in the center of the southern side. And ascends to the courtyard of this dome through three steps from the western and eastern sides, and its floor is paved with stone, and on its edge from the northern side are two sleeping columns that seem to have been placed in a late time as a balustrade.