Al-Ahmadiah Madrasa

The Ahmadiyya School changed into installed at a junction between Souq al-Hadid and Bab al-Nasr whilst Ahmad Pasha noticed the need for an institute to train clerks and accountants for dealing with the Diwan. The faculty gates cause a winding hall, partly hid via a wooden partition, opening into a courtyard paved with ablaq stone. At the middle of the courtyard lies an octagonal fountain, dealing with a teaching iwan with a ceiling supported by painted cedar beams in indigo hues. The teachers’ rooms in the eastern wing characteristic a marble mihrab, above which is inscribed the Quranic verse “Allah raises those who believe” in golden Thuluth script. The school underwent restoration in 1993, the usage of lime mortar injections and felt insulation on the roof to prevent moisture damage. During the struggle, it changed into closed and repurposed as a storage space for displaced household furniture, which covered it from looting. In 2021, it was reopened as a manuscript restoration institute, where students restore pages from Ottoman-era “Furat” newspapers using tea-based ink. A voice-guided application now explains to traffic how instructors as soon as used wheat multiplication and department as an analogy to educate probabilities. One of the imaginative academic projects was the “Chickpea Calculation” method, where baskets of chickpeas were used to illustrate fractions to elementary students, linking traditional learning with local culinary heritage.