al-Madrasa al-Yūsufiyya المدرسة اليوسفية

Today: Palacio de la Madraza, Granada

Place: Ġarnāṭa (Granada)
Kind: Madrasa
Built: 1340 to 1349
What remains: Standing

The madrasa that Yūsuf I built between 1340 and 1349 beside the Great Mosque, the first public madrasa of al-Andalus, teaching law, medicine and mathematics. Today's building is not the original, but it keeps the 14th-century Naṣrid oratory; the upper hall, with its 16th-century Mudéjar ceiling, is Christian. It belongs to the University of Granada.

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