The Mufti House () is a house located at the intersection of

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and Mango Street in the

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neighborhood of

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. Like many other houses in Jabal Amman, such as the

Mango House The Mango House is a building in Amman, Jordan. Situated on Mango Street, the house looks out toward Jabal Akhddar on the other side of the valley that is downtown Amman. Architecture The Mango House was designed by architect Mukhtar Saqr, wh ...

across the street, 70 years has given the house time for a significantly wooded front yard to develop. A stair-stepped stone wall covered in ivy separates it from the main street.

History

The Mufti House was built in the late 1920s in the style of the Akrawi and Habböo House located to the south. Built by Umar Hikmat, a prominent Circassian, the house was sold to a fellow Circassian politician,

Sa'id al-Mufti Sa'id Pasha al-Mufti (; ; 26 June 1898 – 25 March 1989) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Jordan, a position he served three terms in between 14 April 1950 and 1 July 1956. Al-Mufti lived in Jab ...

, in the mid-1930s. Mufti, who would later become the mayor of Amman, made numerous additions to the house as his prestige as a politician grew. A new kitchen, toilets and a dining room were added, in what would eventually become the present-day house. Most significantly, Mufti added the notable front porch during the 1950s. Around the same time, another house was built to the east of the original house by Shawkat, Mufti's brother. Mufti eventually moved into the house, where he stayed until his death. Sa'id, Mufti's wife, resides in the house today.

Architecture

Similar in style to the Akrawi and Habböo house, the Mufti House features a wide aqua-green front exposure, very much in the style of that era of Amman architecture. The front porticoed balcony features rose-stone columns similar to the stone used by the

across the street. The Mufti house does not face the street but instead looks in the direction of the Jabal Akhddar mountains on the other side of Amman.

References

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