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The Mausoleum and Mosque of Sultan Hasan - Madrasah Mosque of Sultan Hasan
Mamluk period, 14th century
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The mosque built below the citadel by Sultan Hasan (1347 – 1361) is among the outstanding achievements of Islamic architecture. The fortress-like building is constructed on an irregular pentagonal ground plan (1.508 ft / 155 m), and covers an area of 85,034 ft2 (7,900 m2). The two minarets are of different heights, since the northern minaret collapsed in the 17th century and had to be replaced by a smaller one. The still extant southern minaret reaches the considerable height of 267 ft (81.6 m). The façade, with its tall windows and several rows of stalactite ornamentation, is particularly impressive. The bronze double doors were plundered in 1415 by Sheikh Muaiyad, who used them for the building consists of an entrance area with several rooms, a central courtyard surrounded by prayer rooms and lecture halls, the main prayer hall, and the mausoleum beyond it, a domed rectangular room, adorned with stalactite ornamentation and surrounded by a calligraphic frieze. Equally unpressive is the metal work in solid gold and silver on its bronze portals. The sultan’s catafalque (unused) is at the center of the mausoleum. Hasan was assassinated in the year 1361, and so did not see the inauguration of the mosque a year later. |
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The
Pyramid of Cheops
The largest
pyramid ever built in Egypt was known as the horizon
of Cheops. This is building, astonishing in the
precision of its execution |
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The Pyramid of Chephren
king Chephren
had his pyramid built in Giza at a diagonal angle to
the building erected by Cheops. |
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The Pyramid of Mycerinus
The modest
height of the pyramid of Mycerinus, which formerly
reached 216 ft (66 m), may have been a country... |
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The
Great Sphinx
The figure of
the great Sphinx was worked from a rocky out crop.
The colossal sculpture (240 x 65 ft; 73.5 x 20 m) |
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The Solar Barque of Cheops
In 1954, yet
another sensational find was in the necropolis area
of Giza, already far from lacking in major
discoveries. While work was in progress directly in
front of the south side of the pyramid of Cheops. |
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Egyptian Museum
The first
Egyptian Museum of Pharaonic antiquities was
established in 1863 by the famous French
archeologist, Auguste Mariette. Afterwards, because
of the many Pharaonic treasurers discovered in Egypt
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Memphis
The present
situation of the ancient capital of Egypt could
hardly be put more cogently, for very little of the
former glory of the metropolis remains. A few
colossal royal statues, the great alabaster sphinx. |
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Saqqara
Beside the
cemetery area of the western Thebes, Saqqara is the
most extensive mortuary town in Egypt, and it is
known to have been used from the early Dynastic
period (First / Second Dynasties) |
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The Pyramid Complex of Djoser
The great
burial district of King Djoser forms the lonely peak
in the development of the royal burial sites of the
early 3rd millennium B.C. which combine elements of
the upper Egypt and lower Egyptian traditions. |
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Dahshur
Only a few
miles south of Saqqara stretches the important and
extensive pyramid field of Dahshur (opened to the
public 1996). Immediately on the edge of the fertile
land lie the brick buildings of tree rules of the
Twelfth Dynasty. |
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The
Coptic Museum
The Coptic museum,
founded in 1908 by Marcus Simaika Pasha, contains
the largest collection of Coptic monuments in the
world. |
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The el-Moallaqa Church
The church of
the Virgin Mary was constructed above the two 59-ft
(18-m) towers of the southern gateway of the
fortress of Babylon |
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Jewish Monuments
The Moses Ben
Maimon synagogue is an important historical and
religious monument in Egypt, and its restoration
will return a piece of Jewish heritage to Egypt. |
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Al-Azhar Mosque
No other mosque
in Cairo surpasses Al-Azhar , "The Flowering," in
tradition and importance. Soon after its foundation
in 970 A.D. it became the site of university
studies, which continued there to the present. |
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Ibn Tulun Mosque
Cairo owns one
of its oldest and most beautiful mosques to Ahmed
Ibn Tulun, founder of the short lived Tulunid
dynasty. |
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Mosque of Sultan Hasan
The mosque
built below the citadel by Sultan Hasan 91347-1361)
is among the outstanding achievements of Islamic
architecture. |
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