monuments, sight seeing and parks in Cairo, egypt

  • Sounds and Light Show - Pyramids
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    Showcasing various pyramids, sphinx, famous figures of ancient Egypt. Contains schedules, times, ticket prices, and reservation.

  • Mubarak Public Library
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    Houses thousands of books, collections, magazines, newspapers. With reference works, audiovisual materials in VCRs, audiocassettes, audio CD's, and multimedia items.

  • Cairo Mosques
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    Showing the Mosque of Amr Ibn El Aas, Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulun, Al – Azhar Mosque, The Mosque and Madrasah of Sultan Hassan and more.

  • Pharaonic Egypt - Giza
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    Showing attractions like Giza Pyramids and Sphinx, Saqqara, solar boats of cheops, Memphis.

  • Egy.com
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    A variety of articles, photos, and references during the 19th and 20th century aspects of Cairo.

  • Mohamed Ali Mosque
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    This Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, is the most visible mosque in Cairo.

  • Al-Azhar Park
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    Showing restored Historic Wall to Old Cairo, Sultan Hassan Mosque and its surroundings, the Ayyubid citadel, the Mamluk "City of the Dead", Fatimid City and its extension, Darb al-Ahmar, with their wealth of mosques, madrasas and mausolea, signalled by a long line of minarets.

  • Abu Bakr Muzhir Complex
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    Mamluk building Style, the interior follows the qa'a layout, with the qibla and the opposing iwan both opening onto the covered courtyard through a tripartite portico. The exceptionally fine marble inlay is signed by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Naqqash.

  • Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda Sabil-Kuttab Museum
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    Two-story square structure, in the inside are marble mosaics, muqarnas corbeling, voussoirs of alternating colors, and polychrome marble revetment. Showing Mamluk and Ottoman architecture and decoration.

  • Abu al-'Ila Mosque
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    Constructed by Ibn al-Qanish al-Burullusi. Features spacious and well-tended shrine, colorful ornamentation. Features baraka, or blessing, and intercession are being visited by local people.

  • Al-Azhar Mosque
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    Located in El Hussein Square, features five very fine minarets with small balconies and carved columns. Inside is a large courtyard surrounded with porticos supported by over three hundred marble columns of ancient origin, to the east is the prayer hall, At the northern end is the tomb medersa of Jawhar El-Sequili.

  • Cairo Islamic Monuments
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    Features Islamic Monuments to visit from The Early Islamic Period. Showing monuments photos, history and descriptions. Including Important Personalities.

     

    Axel Pfennig