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probably classrooms. A second floor exists, with a gallery around the courtyard leading to 19 small bedrooms for students. A second, larger prayer hall is also found on the upper floor, directly above the ground floor prayer hall. The layout, in which the entrance and major rooms of the ground floor are aligned symmetrically with the two central axes of the building, may have been inspired by the layout of madrasas in Egypt or further east. It also resembles the layout of traditional houses in the medina of Tunis, and the building may have been a former house that was remodeled and repurposed into a madrasa. Due to its later renovations, none of the madrasa's original decoration, if it had any, has survived.
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