Cherratine Madrasa

The Cherratine Madrasa is a seventeenth-century religious college in the Fes medina, built under the Alaouite sultan Moulay Rashid and among the largest of the city's madrasas. Unlike the ornate Marinid colleges, it is more austere, with a plain courtyard and simpler decoration, but it provided lodging for a great number of students near the Qarawiyyin. Its cellular rooms rise around several courtyards, reflecting a functional approach to housing scholars. It illustrates the continuing tradition of educational patronage in Fes.