The Mausoleum and Mosque of Qait Bey

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The Mausoleum and Mosque of Qait Bey
Mamluk period, 1472 - 1474

This complex is among the finest Islamic buildings in Cairo. It consists of a portal area with a well, a minaret (h. 131 ft; 40 m), the madrasa mosque with its four areas arranged in a cruciform pattern around a courtyard (the “four-iwan design), living rooms and maintenance offices, as well as the mausoleum itself and a chamber beside it for the tombs of the sultan’s four wives.

The dome and minaret are ornamented with filigree arabesque decoration, and the interior too was adorned with valuable incrustations (inlay decoration), and marble floors with intarsia work. Qait Bey’s magnificent cenotaph (tomb without a body in it) stands before the prayer niche in the mausoleum, with a reliquary beside it containing the black footprints of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca.

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