Cairo
It was established in 1040 AH / 1630 by Mustafa Jalbi Sinan Pasha and Muhammad Agha, and as a charitable facility for providing water.
The sabil has two façades; one of them overlooks Suq al-Silah Street through a rectangular sabil window that is covered by metal grilles surmounted by the founding inscription in Arabic on a marble slab. The founding inscription is also surrounded by geometric motifs and ceramic tiles. The other facade overlooks the Shamashergy Alley, where the entrance is located with the second sabil window that's similar to the first one.
The entrance of the sabil leads to a hall that opens to two doors leading to the rectangular sabil room which contains the windows of the sabil and the shazrawan (a tilted marble slab with a hole at the top from which water flows down on the slab for purification). A prayer room has been attached to the sabil whose architectural features have changed in later periods; as it used to be a square room with ahollow mihrab on the south-eastern wall. Perpendicular to the façade of the sabil, lies a stone arch that was the door of the Shamashergy Alley in the past.
