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Cairo skyline featuring numerous minarets.. Cairo holds one of the greatest concentrations of historical monuments of Islamic architecture in the world, and includes mosques and Islamic religious complexes from diverse historical periods.
Cairo: 1411 Khayrbak Mosque: Cairo ... Mosque of Amir al-Sayf Sarghatmish: Cairo. 1356 Mosque of Muhammad Ali: Cairo 1848 Most visible site in the city ...
Al-Mahmoudia Mosque; Mahmud al-Kurdi Mosque; Mashhad al-Tabataba; Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu; Mosque and Mausoleum of Amir Ahmad al-Mihmandar; Mosque and Mausoleum of Imam al-Layth bin Sa'ad; Mosque of Almalik al-Jukandar; Mosque of Khushqadam el-Ahmadi; Mosque of Qani-Bay; Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi; Mosque of Qaytbay (Qal'at al-Kabsh)
The creation of this funerary complex was actually ordered by Faraj's father, Sultan Barquq, who expressed a desire to be buried in the desert close to the existing tombs of Islamic saints and scholars, instead of in the urban funerary complex he had built at Bayn al-Qasrayn in central Cairo. [1]
Israeli bombs on Rafah flattened a mosque and destroyed homes in what residents called one of their worst nights yet, while the Hamas chief was in Cairo for talks Gazans hope could bring a truce ...
Egypt's Islamic Cultural Center, which houses Masjid Misr or the Grand Mosque, is a religious and architectural landmark located in the New Administrative Capital in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. [1] The center covers an area of 250,000 square meters, and can accommodate 131,000 people.
The Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun Mosque is an early 14th-century mosque at the Citadel in Cairo, Egypt. It was built by the Mamluk sultan Al-Nasr Muhammad in 1318 as the royal mosque of the Citadel, where the sultans of Cairo performed their Friday prayers .
The mausoleum is located along a street leading across the al-Khalifa area (also referred to as the Sayyida Nafisa Cemetery) which is part of the wider Qarafa Necropolis of Cairo. Along the street is a concentration of important mausoleums from different periods, including those of Egypt's only female ruler since Cleopatra , Shajar ad-Durr ...