Al Badawi Mosque مسجد السيد أحمد البدوى بطنطا 10

A sign above the main entrance to the mosque. It has some fine thuluth handwriting. It ststes that this mosque was built in 1267 a.h. ( about 1850 a.d. ) in the era of Khedive Abbas the First who ruled Egypt ( 1848 - 1856 ). The mosque then unerwent some improvements and fortifiation in 1320 a.h. ( about 1900 a.d ) in the era of Khedive Abbas Hilmi the Second who ruled Egypt ( 1892 - 1914 ).

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Uploaded on January 19, 2010
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