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Madrassah AL-Shamsiyah

It is the oldest Mamluk madrasah in Tripoli, built by the magistrate “Shams ed-Din Ahmed Ben Atiyah el-Iskandari” to the left of the main door of the mosque El-Mansouri, in 697AH/1298AC. It has a vault made of pads above its exterior door, and above it stands the magistrate’s house, which is considered the oldest Mamluk house in Lebanon.