imaret

These dishes were given to the other members of the imaret only once a week.

Many of these structures are still in existence, and the former imaret is now a noted restaurant.

Eventually, the imaret supported even the richest families in Jerusalem.

Until the regulation of the ownership, Imaret remained completely deserted.

In 1967 the residents (refugees mostly) of Imaret were ordered to leave and the monument was sealed.

The administrators, employees and beneficiaries of the imaret represented the social hierarchy of the community.

The imaret was more than "just another poor-relief institution, but also a special fund used for granting benefits to certain favourite people."

By the 18th century, the corruption was so widespread that the imaret was no longer economically viable.

Consequently, the imaret not only revealed the social hierarchy of Jerusalem, but was an effective method of keeping people in line.

The imaret no longer exists.

Nevertheless, dependence on nobles to maximize political control also had a detrimental effect on the maintenance of the imaret.

For instance, a legal document in 1782 mentioned that a mercenary army commander was entitled to 48 loaves of bread from the imaret daily.

They include eight medrese, library, hospital, hospice, caravanserai, market, hamam, primary school and public kitchen (imaret) which served food to the poor.

For example, employees of the imaret would receive one ladle of soup and two loaves of bread.

The imaret located within this complex served a diverse group of people including dignitaries, travelers, scholars, and students from the Fatih colleges. "

The administrators were often members of the local noble families, and had the power to recruit friends, relatives and free slaves as employees of the imaret.

Similar to other imarets, the Fatih imaret served rice soup in the morning and wheat soup in the evening.

An imaret is one of a few names used to identify the public soup kitchens built throughout the Ottoman Empire from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

In the early years of Ottoman rule, Jericho formed part of the waqf and Imaret of Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem she established in 1552 the Hasseki Sultan Imaret, a public soup kitchen to feed the poor and the needy.

Like other imarets throughout the Ottoman Empire, the Hasseki Sultan Imaret was a tool for maintaining social order.

Another name was the İmaret Mosque after the imaret, a kitchen for the poor located in the vicinity, the ruins of which were found in 1912.

It was granted a waqf status by the sanjak-bey Mehmet-pasha, for the mosque and imaret (public kitchen) of Belgrade's Dorćol district.

In 1334 Orhan built a mosque and an imaret (soup kitchen) just outside the Yenisehir gate (Yenişeh Kapısı) on the south side of the town.

Hasseki Sultan Imaret was an Ottoman public soup kitchen established in Jerusalem to feed the poor during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.