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The mosque is notable for its façade, which is elaborately decorated with inscriptions and geometric carving. This is both the first mosque in Cairo to have such decoration, and it also the first to have a façade which follows the line of the street, built at an angle to the rectangular hypostyle hall whose orientation is dictated by the qibla direction.
Photograph of Musafirkhana Palace: view of the courtyard with the main qa'a in the background.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
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4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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El-Harrawi House built in 1731 by Ahmed Ben Youssef El -Serafi is considered to be one of the fine examples of the Islamic houses representing the Ottoman era. It is named after its last owner, Abd El-Rahman El-Harrawi, who was the Hakim (Doctor) of Qasr El-Ayini Medical School.
The house is located in the heart of a well known quarter in Cairo. Behind the Azhar Mosque, in Darb EL-Ahmar area, El-Harrawi is situated between two narrow Haraa (Alleys), Harat Al Madrasa and Zuqaq Al Ayini. Several other Islamic houses and monuments are found in the Darb El-Ahmar surroundings. The house has a common wall with Sitt Wasila house (i.e.Lady Wasila) (17th century). It is adjacent to the house of Zeinab Khatoun (15th, 17th century), and to the Ghannamiah Hall (14th century). Also at a near distance is Al-Ayini Mosque (15th century)
Photograph of the Qubba of Yunus al-Dawadar. Compare with The Ghur-i Amir in Samarqand (Tomb of Tamerlane, 1404).
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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Also known as al-Rabemayyah (Water Apartments, i.e. near the canal).
Patron: Amir Ali Agha Katkhuda al-Gawshiyya
Islamic Monument #540
Photograph of the main facade of the Muslim Youth Association Center.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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Photograph of the Qubba al-Sultaniyya.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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marble floor and walls and cool wind while outside temperature rose to 119 F. Lahore fort picture in 1995. A kid looks beyond the past.
Photograph of the Maq`ad facade of the Suheimi House.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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Photograph of funerary-religious complex of Sultan Qaytbay: general view of the mosque.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a former slave of the first Burji Sultan, Barquq.
He was responsible for a number of administrative reforms in the Mamluk state, including the consolidation of the sultanate as a military magistrature and securing for Egypt exclusive rights over the Red Sea trade between Yemen and Europe.[1]
His Red Sea activity included the final destruction in 1426 of ‘Aydhab, a once important port which had been in decline in the previous century.
His mausoleum, which included a madrasa and khanqah, was built in Cairo's Northern Cemetery, and has survived to this day.[2]
Architecture Magnificense. This is truly a testament to man's creativitiy like other great architectures of the past.
Sayyidna al-Hussein mosque in Cairo. It's a 19th-20th century building, noteworthy not for its architecture, but for being the main congregational mosque of Cairo and supposedly the final resting place of Hussein, the famous grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who figures prominently in the Shi'a branch of Islam.
Supposedly, this mosque is off-limits to non-Muslims, but I blundered into it without problem (I misread the map in my guidebook and thought it was al-Azhar mosque!) wearing my usual mosque-wear. It's the only mosque I encountered in Cairo that has separate entrances and sections for men and women. I got a few odd looks inside when I went over to a shrine area which I now understand is where Hussein's head is entombed. It's set up at the intersection of the tiny women's section and the main men's section, so both men and women can pray there.
Mosque of Ibn Tulun, the largest remaining Abbasid Structure in Cairo, and the largest in area.
مسجد أحمد بن طولون, أحد أكبر الأثار العباسية في مصر, و هو أكبر مساجد القاهرة من حيث المساحة
Photograph of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha in Bulaq: detail of the dome.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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