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Haseki Sultan Imaret

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Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192)
Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192)

Haseki Sultan Imaret was an Ottoman public soup kitchen established in Jerusalem to feed the poor during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. The imaret was part of a massive Waqf complex built in 1552 by Haseki Hürrem Sultan, better known in the West as Roxelana, the favorite wife of Sultan Suleiman I. This soup kitchen was said to have fed at least 500 people twice a day.

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Haseki Sultan Imaret
Heil HaHandasa, Jerusalem Morasha

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Heil HaHandasa
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Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192)
Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192)
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