Mosque · Egypt
Mosque of Al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh
A Mamluk mosque beside Bab Zuwayla, built on the site of a former prison.
Where it is
30.0432, 31.2576
Why go
Its founder had been imprisoned on the site before becoming sultan. The mosque’s courtyard and arcades are joined to an unusually visible urban landmark: its minarets rise from the towers of Bab Zuwayla. The architectural connection does not make the mosque and city gate interchangeable.
Near Mosque of Al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh
Monument
Bab Zuwayla
The surviving southern gate of Fatimid Cairo carries the later minarets of Al-Mu’ayyad’s mosque.
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Monument
Sabil-Kuttab of Muhammad Ali, Al-Aqqadin
A rounded public fountain and school commissioned in memory of Muhammad Ali’s son Tusun.
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Mosque
Al-Fakahani Mosque
An Ottoman-rebuilt mosque preserving wooden doors from its Fatimid predecessor.
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Historic site
House of Gamal Al-Din Al-Dhahabi
A seventeenth-century merchant’s house in Cairo’s Al-Ghuriyya area.
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