Al-Halawiyah Madrasa is a madrasah

Madrasah

Madrasah is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious...

 complex located in Aleppo

Aleppo

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, Syria

Syria

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. The building back dates to the 5th century and was originally Aleppo's great Byzantine

Byzantine

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 cathedral

Cathedral

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. It was subsequently converted to a mosque in 1123 during the reign of Balak Ibn Bahram Ibn Ourtoq. The building encompasses a small courtyard and the original chapel with its eight large corinthian

Corinthian order

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 columns. These columns resemble ones at the Saint Simeon Cathedral outside Aleppo. The symmetry of the space allowed a relatively easy transformation from chapel to masjid. The mosque located across from the Great mosque is now used as a madrasa for the followers of in 1149 Hanafi

Hanafi

The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...

 school during the reign of Nur al-Din.

See also

• Al-Zahiriyah Madrasa
  Al-Zahiriyah Madrasa
  Al-Zahiriyah Madrasa is a madrasah complex located between the Kamiliyah and the Firdaws madrasas, about south of Bab al-Maqam, in Aleppo, Syria. It was built by Az-Zahir Ghazi in 1217...
  
  
• Al-Firdaws Madrasa
  Al-Firdaws Madrasa
  Al-Firdaws Madrasa is a madrasah complex located southwest of Bab al-Maqam in Aleppo, Syria. It is the largest and best known of the Ayyubid madrasas in Aleppo. Due to its location outside the city walls, the madrasa was developed as a freestanding structure....
  
  
• Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa
  Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa
  Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa is a madrasah complex located across from the Citadel entrance in Aleppo, Syria. It is a religious, educational and funerary complex. It contains the tomb of sultan Malik al-Zaher the son of Ayyubid Sultan Saladin.-See also:...
  
  
• Khusruwiyah Mosque
  Khusruwiyah Mosque
  The Khusruwiyah Mosque is a mosque complex in Aleppo, Syria. It is located south of the Citadel, facing its main entrance. The mosque was built under the patronage of the Hüsrev Pasha, while he was serving as the fourth vizier under Sultan Suleiman I...
  
  
• Al-Uthmaniyah Madrasa
  Al-Uthmaniyah Madrasa
  Al-Uthmaniyah Madrasa is a madrasah complex located in the northern Bab al-Nasr district of the old city of Aleppo, Syria. It was established by Ottoman Pasha Al-Duraki in 1730 and was originally named Madrasa Ridaiya. The madrasa, which includes a mosque, boasts one of the tallest minarets in...