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Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...
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El Aqmar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The middle of the tripartite composition in the facade is dominated by a protruding portal decorated with a large keel arch niche carved with fluting radiating from a central medallion, like a sunrise or shell motif.
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El Aqmar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The medallion has the name of Muhammad repeated in a circular interlacing pattern forming a circle, with the name Ali at the center, all in Kufic and pierced right through the stone. This is all surrounded by a circle of arabesque and of pierced Kufic, with a final circular band decorated with interlacing scrolls.
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The complex of Ashraf Barsbay-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The complex, built in 1425, with its fleur-de-lis crenellation and carved-stone, pepperpot dome, is typical of later Mameluke architecture. It consists of the mosque/madrasa with a sabil-kuttab (public drinking fountain and school)and an attached mausoleum.
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The Al Azhar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Located in the center of an area teaming with the most beautiful Islamic monuments from the 10th century, it was called "Al-Azhar" after Fatama al-Zahraa, daughter of the Prophet Mohamed.
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The Al Azhar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The mosque has six entrances, with the main entrance being the 18th Century Bab el-Muzayini (barber's gate).
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The Al Azhar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Today the university built around the Mosque is the most prestigious of Muslim schools, and its students are highly esteemed for their traditional training.
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The Al Azhar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Al-Azhar mosque, university and cultural center attracts scholars and frequenters from all over the globe. There were many historical examples of the role if this university in political revolutions, like the revolution of March 1800 against the French, the May revolution in 1805 or the birth of the independence movement in 1919.
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The Al Azhar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Located in El Hussein Square, the Al-Azhar Mosque (the most blooming), established in 972 in a porticoed style shortly after the founding of Cairo itself. It was built on the orders of Caliph Muezz Li-Din Allah.
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