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The Khanqah of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq: one of the two stone carved domes with its chevron pattern

The Khanqah of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq: (1400-11). A very symmetrical composition which contains a hypostyle mosque, cells for sufis, and two minarets and two carved stone qubbas, which are the largest stone domes in Cairo.

 

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

 

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http://ocw.mit.edu/terms

 

Publisher

MIT OpenCourseWare

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Uploaded on October 31, 2008
Taken on July 8, 2002