Al Aqmar Mosque El Moez street Cairo Egypt

Al-Aqmar Mosque El-Gamaleya Cairo Egypt https://getyourguideinegypt.blogspot.... Al-Aqmar mosque is located on al-Muizz Street, and was commissioned by the Fatimid Caliph al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah in 519 AH/ 1125 AD. The mosque’s construction was supervised by the Vizier al-Ma’mun al-Bata’ihi, and it was renewed during the reign of Sultan Barquq in 799 AH/ 1397 AD under the supervision of Prince Yalbugha al-Salmi. The main façade of the mosque is presently one of the oldest surviving stone façades in Egypt. Its architecture is characterized by its intricate stone carvings and the repetition of the phrase “Muhammad and Ali”, in addition to Qur’anic verses written in the Kufic script. The engineer’s ingenuity is most manifest in his ability to orient the façade to the direction of the street and maintain the direction of prayer inside the mosque. When the Coptic Museum was built in the twentieth century, its façade was inspired by al-Aqmar Mosque’s architecture, but with Biblical verses and Christian iconography. The mosque consists of an open courtyard at its center surrounded by four riwaqs (arcades) topped by shallow domes, the largest of which marks the qibla, the direction of prayer. An inscription above the mihrab (niche in the wall of a mosque marking the direction of prayer) records the renovations that were undertaken by Yalbugha al-Salmi. Historian Taqi al-Din Ahmed bin Ali al-Maqrizi says, in his book, “Prayers and consideration of el- Ethir in Remembrance of Plans and Effects,” about the reforms that took place in the mosque. When it was in the month of Rajab in the year seven hundred and ninety-nine, the Emir, Minister Field Marshal Al-Astadar, Yalbugha bin Abdullah Al-Salmi, one of the Zahirite Mamluks, renewed it. On the outside of his door in Al-Bahri he built shops topped with dishes, and he renewed in the courtyard of the mosque a nice pool to which the water reaches from a waterwheel, and he made it high from which water descends to those who perform ablution from copper taps, and he set up a pulpit in it. see also Ibn Tulun Mosque Cairo    • Ibn Tulun Mosque Cairo   Mosque Madrasa of Sultan Hassan Egypt    • Mosque Madrasa of Sultan Hassan Egypt مسجد...   Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @orlandofuorios