When visiting Cairo, you will easily find the Mohamed Ali Mosque because of its striking features: Its dome rises up to 52 metres and the two minarets on the east side reach no less than 84 metres. Walking through the mosque, you will soon discover why it is also called the “Alabaster Mosque” Its interior […]
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Sultan-Hassan Mosque and Madrassa
The Mosqueand Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is considered the finest work of early Mamluk architecture in Cairo, an age of architectural splendour. History says that the construction of this complex was a long and tragic process. In fact, it was built between 1356 and 1363 by Sultan Hassan, who was assassinated shortly before the mosque […]
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Salah El-Din Citadel in Cairo
If you are in Cairo, it is practically impossible to miss the Salah El-Din Citadel, one of the world’s greatest monuments of mediaeval warfare. Resembling a typical early mediaeval fortress with large imposing gates, towers and high defensive walls, the Citadel is one of Cairo’s main attractions and probably the most popular non-Paraonic monument in […]
Near Bab al-Futuh, at the beginning of Al-Mo’ez Street, you will find one of the largest Fatimid mosques in Cairo: the Al-Hakim Mosque. The notoriously eccentric caliph Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah had it built in 990 AD. Towards the end of his reign, he disappeared without a trace at the age of 36. Since then, the […]
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The Gayer-Anderson Museum
Gayer Anderson Pasha was an English officer who studied medicine in London and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1904. He was later posted to Egypt in 1907 and lived in the house now known as the Gayer-Anderson Museum. The house was converted into a museum and named after the British major and army […]
