Al-Khalifa District
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Al-Khalifa is one of the districts of the southern region of Cairo Governorate, Egypt. It is known for its historical and religious monuments, as it encompasses the southern portion of Historic Cairo
Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i
View of the Cairo Citadel, topped by the Mosque of Muhammad Ali
The Mamluk-era Sultaniyya Mausoleum (right) and Mausoleum of Amir Qawsun (left), surrounded by other graves, in Cairo's southern Qarafa cemetery
The Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan is a monumental mosque and madrasa located in Salah al-Din Square in the historic district of Cairo, Egypt. It was built between 1356 and 1363 CE during the Bahri Ma
The mosque in 2014, viewed from the Citadel
Illuminated frontispiece from the Qur'an commissioned by sultan Al-Hasan for his complex, now part of the National Library of Egypt's Collection of Mamluk Qur'an Manuscripts.
View of Sultan Hasan's mosque and of Rumayla Square in 1880
The mosque-madrasa-mausoleum of Sultan Hasan today, as seen from the Citadel. (The other large mosque on the right is the al-Rif'ai Mosque.)