House of Hrawi

This house is located at the ed of al-Ayi alley, which is part of Al-Azhar Street. It was built by Al-Hajj Ahmad ib Yusuf Al-Sirafi i 1144 AH / 1731 AD, although the house is still attributed to Abdel Rahma Bek Al-Harawi, who was wise at the medical school i the palace i the late Ottoma period. For a documet dated 1213 AH / 1798 AD, ad the house is curretly beig reused by the Cultural Developmet Fud as the house of the Arab Oud. The house cosists of three architectural uits with a ope courtyard. The house cosists of three floors. It icludes a summer table, a moday (the receptio hall for me). It is surrouded by marble waterfalls to cool the atmosphere, a cheese mill, stable for horses, kitches for cookig, (A special room for wome), ad a umber of rooms. The seat cotais a set of woode wall paels ad a writig bar beeath the woode ceilig that icludes poetry verses ad the foudig text of the house (this place was created by Haj Ahmad ib Yusuf al-Sirafi i 1144 e). The Ottoma architecture i the desig of the house took ito accout the separatio betwee the movemet of visitors ad guests ad the movemet of the people of the house, which preserves each of their privacy ad this is evidet i the refractio of the corridor of the etrace to the house ad ot coected to the groud rooms directly to the courtyard ad the mai receptio hall. The woode decorative elemets of the house are a real reflectio of the art of Ottoma wood decoratio i the twelfth cetury AH / AD 18th cetury. The combiatio of Mamluk motifs i terms of colors ad Ottoma motifs of the Europea Reaissace art forms i form, It has a decorative decorative ad colorful geometric ad geometric decoratios, as well as the shutters of the rooms ad the walls with the seat ilaid with ivory ad eboy.