Mosque · Egypt
Mosque of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar
مسجد وسبيل سليمان أغا السلحدار
An 1839 Ottoman-style mosque on northern Al-Muizz Street with a pencil-shaped minaret and a rounded marble sabil-kuttab.
Where it is
30.0526, 31.2619
Why go
Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar, an official under Muhammad Ali Pasha, built this mosque in 1839 on the northern stretch of Al-Muizz Street at the corner of Haret Burjuwan. Its slender ribbed minaret ends in a pencil point, and a sabil-kuttab with a rounded marble front and copper window grilles is attached to the façade. Inside, a covered court with a central octagonal wooden lantern dome leads to the prayer hall, whose mihrab is carved from a single block of marble.
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