Historic site · Egypt
Zeinab Khatoun House
بيت زينب خاتون
A Mamluk-founded house behind Al-Azhar Mosque, arranged around an open courtyard with separate men’s and women’s quarters.
Where it is
30.0448, 31.2636
Why go
Built in 1486 for Princess Shakra Hanim, a granddaughter of Sultan al-Nasir Hasan, this house behind Al-Azhar Mosque takes its name from a later owner, Zeinab Khatoun, wife of Amir Sharif Hamza al-Kharbutli. Rooms are arranged around a spacious open courtyard overlooked by the men’s reception area, the salamlik, through wooden mashrabiyya screens. The women’s quarters, the haramlik, occupy the second floor and bedrooms the third, making the plan easy to read for anyone curious about how a wealthy Cairo household lived.
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