SALAD BOWL MAUSOLEUM

Inside, two cenotaphs, on whose history historians still disagree.

According to the guardian, the first, white marble, provided by the Ottoman Sultan Abdel Hamid II in 1878, is empty. Above, a silver lamp bears the seal of the Sultan and Emperor Guillaume II, who would subsidize the restoration of the room twenty years later. The second cenotaph, in wood, protected by a glass, houses the remains of Saladin. The elegant bursa arabesques to the rich floral web express the hope that paradise will be the last conquest of the deceased and make clear reference to the fighting of Saladin, while the tiles of the th century, in the bottom of the room, recall that he chased the crusaders of Jerusalem. It is said that, at his death, Saladin left seventeen dinars and a piece of Tyre in Tyre for every fortune. Legend or truth, it must be noted that the wood cenotaph built by his son Al-Afdal does not seem to match the character's historical dimension. Outside the mausoleum, graves contain the remains of unknown persons killed in the Turkish bombing of 1910.