Aqmar Mosque
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The Aqmar Mosque or al-Aqmar Mosque, is a mosque located in Cairo, Egypt. Built as a neighborhood mosque by the Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi in 1125, the mosque is situated on what was once th
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The mosque in 1906, before modern restorations. (The right half of the facade was missing.)
The street façade (the portion to the right of the entrance portal is a recent reconstruction)
Renovated interior courtyard, looking towards the entrance and the minaret
Fatimid architecture
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Fatimid architecture, developed in the Fatimid Caliphate of North Africa, combined elements of eastern and western architecture, drawing on Abbasid architecture, Byzantine, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic ar
Aqmar Mosque
…Cairo, known today as al-Mu'izz Street, in the immediate neighborhood of the former Fatimid caliphal palaces. The mosque is an important monument of Fatimid architecture and of historic Cairo due to the exceptional decoration of its exterior façade and the innovative design of its floor plan. The mosque was built by the…
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1830 view of the gate of Bab al-Nasr, Cairo, built by Badr al-Jamali in 1087