The Madrasa of Granada, also called the Palacio de la Madraza, is a former madrasa in Granada, Spain. Yusuf I, the Nasrid ruler of Granada, founded it in 1349. It stands on Calle Oficios, near the main mosque, now Granada Cathedral, and the Alcaicería bazaar. It is the only major madrasa known to have been built in al-Andalus. Islamic law and Arabic grammar were central, along with theology, medicine and astronomy.
The surviving original section is the oratory, a square room about 6.84 meters per side. It transitions to an octagon through muqarnas squinches and has a wooden cupola and a 14th-century mihrab.
In 1500 Ferdinand II designated the building the city hall. Between 1722 and 1729 most of it was replaced by a Baroque building designed by José de Bada. It joined the University of Granada in 1976 and opened to the public in 2011.
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