Monument · Egypt
Sabil-Kuttab of Umm Abbas
سبيل وكتاب أم عباس
An 1867 public fountain and Qur’an school on al-Saliba Street, its marble front carved with rococo ornament and Arabic and Turkish texts.
Where it is
30.0308, 31.2523
Why go
Bamba Qadin commissioned this public fountain and Qur’an school on al-Saliba Street in 1867 in memory of her son Abbas Helmi I, ruler of Egypt. Its rounded façade has four copper-grilled windows beneath a projecting wooden canopy and a ribbed dome. The marble walls are carved with floral ornament in the European rococo manner and bear Arabic and Turkish texts, among them a band naming the calligrapher Abd Allah al-Zuhdi.
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