His journey from a collector to a soap factory.“Al-Zahir Mosque Rukn al-Din Baybars” was a luxurious and majestic mosque, and there was no dress to use it. It was a very great opening, but after the killing of Tuman Bey, the last of the Mamluk sultans, and when the Ottomans ruled Egypt, they turned it into a store for horse saddles, military equipment and tools of soldiers, and then the French campaign and countries remained conscious of defenders, not horse saddles So, they turned it from a storehouse to a barracks for soldiers, and then the family of Muhammad Ali Hikmat came and turned the mosque into a bakery where they baked living, and then turned into a soap factory and in the era of the British occupation, it turned again into an “altar”.After the assassination of Muzaffar Seif al-Din Qutuz, and Baybars al-Bandaqdari, who called himself al-Zahir Rukn al-Din, took power, this was the real beginning of the stability of the Mamluk state, because they were the first to seize power after the killing of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub and the assumption of al-Muizz Izz al-Din Aybak while they were in wars with the Tatars until he was victorious. They have Qutuz in Ain Jalut, so Al-Zahir Baybars is considered the true founder of the Mamluk Bahri state.And because the Mamluks were slandered by the Egyptian people in particular and by the general public in general, that they were rulers with no origin or separation; A few slaves and Mamluks rose in positions and ruled. The Mamluks used to take the legitimacy of this rule from the Abbasid Caliph, and Egypt would remain affiliated with the Abbasid Caliphate.. Ok, the Abbasid Caliphate state fell.Al-Zahir brought Baybars, one of the survivors of the sons of the Abbasids to Egypt, and he said to him, “You are the Abbasid Caliph, and we will preserve you in Egypt, on the condition that you religiously govern the legitimacy of the rule. Originally) it is evidenced by the legitimacy of the rule and it is recognized in ruling Egypt.. and Baibars built them a dome next to the mosque of Sayyida Nafisa called “The Dome of the Abbasid Caliphs” where the last of the Abbasids who preferred to live in Egypt were buried from them.** In the pictures, the mosque of Al-Zahir Baybars and the dome of the Abbasid Caliphs..

The mausoleum consists of a square-shaped building of 90 square meters and a height of 5.50 meters. In the corners of the square are triangles filled with pendants, then a dome above it. The main entrance to the mausoleum is located on the opposite side of the qiblah, i.e. on the northwestern side, and the facade is decorated with a door arched in the form of a broken angle, and on both sides of the door there is a marble sitting, and on the northeastern side there is a second door now turned into a window, and it is likely that there is a third door on the southern side Al-Gharbia, although it is not possible to verify this now because the mosque of Sayyida Nafisa was built adjacent to this side. On both sides of the entrance door there are two hollow niches that resemble the mihrab, and the eastern and western façades are decorated with curves, but are flat, and the mausoleum on the inside is broken with a layer of beautifully decorated plaster, and in the qibla wall there is a broken arch inside the mihrab cavity surrounded by a group of pendants and clerical strips of stucco. The mihrab, as well as the refracted arch, is surmounted by a wooden frieze with an oil-painted cursive inscription. There is a set of windows in the mausoleum, occupying the areas between the triangles of the corners, which are filled with pendants. The windows consist of three openings. All filled with plaster and multicolored glass.

It was built in the second era of the Abbasids in the era of the Ayyubid dynasty, which ruled after the Ikhshidids and the Fatimids, and which considered the Abbasid caliph is the caliph of the Muslims, but in a symbolic and not actual way.

The place has been largely neglected despite its historical importance

It is a beautiful archaeological place

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