It is located inside the Jerusalem wall near the Watchtower gate.

It is also called the "al-Zawiya Al-faridiya", after Sheikh Farid al-Din al-Hindi, as the Ottoman authorities granted him the Zawiya building belonging to the Awqaf previously .

A shop in Bab Hatta market was stopped on it in 1868, and some of the corner buildings were shelled by the artillery of the Israeli occupation army in the war of 1967.

Today, part of it is used as offices and a clinic for the relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, and another part was used as a branch of Al-Aqsa schools between the years (1972 and 2004).

A third part of it is occupied by the Ansari family of Indian origin, which has been overseeing Zawiya since the beginning of the British Mandate