Closed but a work of historical art 👌🏻👍🏻

Old building

The mosque contains a fountain, a book and a wonderful entrance. It contains a lot of decorations and inscriptions. A relatively new minaret for the age of the mosque.The mosque in front of Ahmed bin Tulun, in the direction of Saliba Street

This mosque is located the sailors of Azbak facing the park, which is affixed to the maritime increase of Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo. It was established in 900 AH / 1495 AD by Prince Azbak Al-Yusufi, who was one of the greatest princes of the Mamluk state of the Circassians and one of its greatest leaders and prominent in the era of Sultan Qaitbay. It fluctuated in several large functions until it became during the reign of King Nasser bin Sultan Qaitbay, referring to the Kingdom.This mosque is full of decoration and writing. It brought together various industries and fine arts. His carpentry represented in the pulpit, the sura chair, his floor, his marble ministries, and his wooden ceilings, all speak of the high status of these industries. It has two destinations: one freely and the other oriental. The entrance is located in the first, and the western end, including a basin for watering animals and the remains of other buildings. And the eastern side topped by a book. Next to the entrance is a lighthouse consisting of two courses, each consisting of beautiful muqarnas. It was finished from the top with a conical obelisk and placed the place of the original part in the Ottoman era removed by the Department of Arab Antiquities in 1947 and rebuilt this upper part as its origin.This mosque was built on the system of schools with orthogonal planning, it consists of a roofed dish with a sistrum surrounded by four iwans, two of which are two major, iwan qibla and iwan opposite. The other two sides are small. The saucer floor is a beautiful example of marble flooring. The qibla iwan is surrounded by a stained marble overalls, centered on a marble mihrab next to a miniature wood pulpit. All writings, whether engraved in stone or wood, include Quranic verses, the name of the originator, and the date of creation.

The mosque is very beautiful but unfortunately closed by the Endowments Authority

The place is deserted and has been demolished

Historical mosque in need of attention

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