Shrine of Hasan ar-Ra'ai

The date of the construction of the shrine is unknown, although the present day shrine exhibits Ottoman architecture and has inscriptions bearing the date 1270 in the Islamic calendar, which corresponds to 1853–1854 in the Gregorian calendar.^[6][7] However, the shrine had seemingly existed earlier than that, as it was visited by traveller Andrey Muravyov in 1830, along with another shrine dedicated to an unspecified Lady Aisha.^[8] The Municipality of Jericho provides an Ottoman origin for the shrine, stating that the shrine is a tomb of the 19th-century caretaker of the nearby Nabi Musa religious complex who was named Hasan, and not of a companion of the biblical prophet.^[9]

Made out of sandstone bricks, the shrine has a rectangular layout plan, divided into two square rooms, with each room topped by a flat dome, while six arched entrances (two on the length, one on the breadth) lead into the shrine.^[10][11] The tomb of Hasan ar-Ra'ai is marked by a simple stone sanduga in the first of the two rooms. Sandstone brick walls surround the shrine and keep it fenced.^[10][11] A mihrab to indicate the direction of the qibla is embedded in the southern fence wall of the shrine, with another two additional unused mihrabs situated in the eastern and western fence walls that are intended to point in the direction of Jerusalem, which was the former qibla before it was changed to Mecca.^[10]

• Nabi Musa
• Maqam (shrine)