A pair of beautiful late-16th-century Ottoman buildings near the western edge of the Old City, designed by Mimar Sinan. The eastern complex is the Takiyya al-Sulaymaniyya itself — a mosque with twin minarets, a hospice for pilgrims, and a kitchen that fed the poor. The western half is the Madrassa al-Salimiyya, finished a few decades later in the same style.
Together they form one of the most accomplished Ottoman building groups outside Istanbul. The central mosque retains its alternating black-and-white masonry, twin pencil minarets, and a fountain in the courtyard. The adjacent madrassa now houses the Army Museum and a craft market under its arcades.