Mosque · Egypt
Complex of Sultan Qaytbay
مجموعة السلطان الأشرف قايتباي
A 1470s Mamluk funerary complex in Cairo’s eastern cemetery with a four-iwan madrasa, marble-faced portal and ivory-inlaid woodwork.
Where it is
30.0440, 31.2750
Why go
Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay built this funerary complex in the Mamluk cemetery between 1472 and 1474, combining a madrasa, a place for teaching the Qur’an to poor Muslims and a private family burial ground. The madrasa follows a courtyard plan with four iwans and is entered through a portal faced with coloured marble and doors with gilded copper. Inside are an ivory-inlaid minbar and Qur’an reader’s chair, a gilded wooden lantern in the roof and a mausoleum floored with coloured marble.
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