“With the land of what you craved, you saw it, so it is not missing it except the esteemed” at the House of Poetry, this manually engraved at a wooden door, which belongs to the poet Abi Al -Tayyib Al -Mutanabbi.
The hotel was built during the Ottoman era, specifically in 1890 as a palace of the Sharaf Al-Maqdisah family, and in 1960, while a newspaper was flipping, Al-Maqdisi, Sami Saadeh, found an announcement of the sale of this palace- whose construction area is 200 square meters and its garden is 100 square meters, in addition to a small settlement- so he bought it, and it was then used as a hotel.
This archaeological construction was used during the Ottoman rule as the army headquarters with the aim of mobilizing the youth for the First World War, and later used the school during the British occupation, then it turned into a hotel during the Jordanian rule and remained so to this day.
Although direct shell injuries caused damage to the eastern side of the hotel during the setback war in 1967, the archaeological construction remained steadfast to this day, and the Saadeh Al -Maqdisiyah family was keen to maintain and care for it in a way that kidnaps the eyes of guests and visitors who want to enjoy an exceptional historical and heritage atmosphere.
The hotel has 14 rooms and contains many Palestinian archaeological holdings of stone, stone, pottery and copper, in addition to the antique wooden seats and other and bamboo.
This archaeological hotel is located on “Antara Bin Shaddad” Street, and inside each room there is poetry for this poet, and outside every poetry room for Abu al -Tayyib al -Mutanabbi, while the rooms of the rooms were designed and detailed specifically for the benefit of the hotel in the Egyptian city of Damietta, and when he arrived in Jerusalem decades ago, the owner of the Jerusalem hotel, Raed Sami Saadeh, had some observations and modifications, the furniture was returned to Egypt and the adjustments were made to Jerusalem.
And out of the hotel, this Jerusalemiti bid farewell to the guests at another house of poetry to al -Mutanabbi engraved at the door, “Whoever cherishes, we must leave them with our conscience, everything after you is not.”
