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Al-Azhar Mosque: View of the main facade of the mosque with, from left to right, the minarets of the madrasa al-Aqbughawiyya, of Qaytbay, and of al-Ghuri

Al-Azhar Mosque: (969-72) The royal congregational mosque of al-Qahira, founded in 969 and dedicated in 972, it evolved to become the religious center of Egypt and the most celebrated theological college in the Islamic world.

 

Format

Photograph

 

Credit

Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.

 

MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin

4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002

 

MIT Course Instructor

Rabbat, Nasser O.

 

MIT Department

Architecture

 

License

http://ocw.mit.edu/terms

 

Publisher

MIT OpenCourseWare

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Taken on July 8, 2002