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From the Mamluk to the late Ottoman period

It should be noted that the Mosque of Muhammad Ali is not typical of such structures in Cairo. In its architecture, Muhammad Ali Pasha, viceroy and effectively king of Egypt, as well as the founder of Egypt's modern era, achieved a radical break with all traditional characteristics of Cairo architecture from the Mamluk to the late Ottoman period.

 

Taken @Cairo, Egypt

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Uploaded on January 6, 2018
Taken on October 20, 2017