Mosque · Egypt
Imam Al-Shafi’i Mosque
A Cairo mosque associated with Imam Al-Shafi’i, with a Mamluk-style minaret and decorated wooden pulpit.
Where it is
30.0119, 31.2583
Why go
The ministry describes an eighteenth-century foundation by Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda and subsequent renewal under the khedives. Its ivory- and ebony-inlaid pulpit is a notable interior feature. This record concerns the mosque rather than treating every nearby funerary building as the same monument.
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