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Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...
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Madrasa Khanqah of Sultan Al Zahir Barquq-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The facade of this Madrasa Khanqah, founded by Circassian origin Sultan Barquq is paneled with recesses surmounted by stalactites. The upper windows have pointed arches as well as wooden grills.
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The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Inal-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Funerary and Religious Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Inal on the west side of the road that crosses the City of the Dead, has in its eastern facade of this structure a mosque with a groin-vaulted portal and a single minaret that is connected to the mains structure by a wall.
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The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Qaytbay-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Sultan Mamluk Qaytbay was a prolific sponsor of important monuments in Egypt. His reign was was a golden age of stone carving when architecture, rather than being gigantic, tended towards refinement.
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The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Qaytbay-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Rising from the structure on the southeast side is a magnificent mausoleum dome. Its surface is adorned with a carved straight-lined star pattern superimposed on another carved network of undulating arabesques.
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The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas, dating to 1506-07, adjoins that of Inal to the north. The funerary complex, which included a Friday (congregational) mosque with Sufi hudur services, has a layout very similar to that of Sultan Qaytbay's mosque.
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The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The dome has the same proportions and even the same scale as that of Qaytbay's mausoleum, though of less intricate geometric adornment. Here, the dome has carved lozenges in the lower part and a zigzag pattern on the upper section.
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The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Like the Sultan Qaytbay's mosque, the minaret is at the right of the portal, with the sabil-kuttab (public drinking fountain and school) on the left side and the dome on the southeast corner of the building adjoining the qa'a-plan prayer hall.
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El Aqmar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: El-Aqmar (also known as the Gray Mosque), means "The Moonlit". It was It was founded during the caliphate of al-Mustansir, a time of great political and spiritual crises for the Fatimid regime. It was the first mosque with an entrance that is not on an axis with the qibla wall an it was also the first mosque in Cairo to have a decorated stone facade.
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