 The fountain was built by Qasim Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem in 1527 during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, making the first public structure to be built on the Haram al-Sharif/ Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Ottomans.Earlier Ottoman works on the site were not the construction of newer buildings but the restoration of the walls.The "Sebil" (fountain) originally got its water supply from a water channel, but today it is supplied with water from the Masjid al-Aqsa's water system.