Islamic Cairo Day Tour

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Islamic Cairo Day Tour

• after Breakfast at the hotel restaurant, Queen of Egypt’ Tour Guide will meet you at the lobby of the hotel to accompany you on an awe-inspiring tour to the Islamic Cairo as you will visit Ibn TulunMosque of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, huge and majestic red brick building complex built in 876 by the Turkish governor of Egypt and Syria. It was built on the site of present-day Cairo and includes a mosque surrounded by three outer ziyādahs, or courtyards.
  Much of the decoration and design recalls the ʿAbbāsid architecture of Iraq. The crenellated outside walls have merlons that are shaped and perforated in a decorative pattern. The courtyards are lined with arcades of broad arches and heavy pillars. In the mosque and the courtyard the arches are decorated with elaborate designs in carved stucco. The roofed oratory of the mosque is divided by pillars into five long aisles or naves originally ornamented with panels of carved wood.
• Then You Will Visit The Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan HasanThe Sultan Hassan Mosque is one of the most Islamic world’s valuable monument. As the giza Pyramids is the stunning of Ancient Pharaonic Egypt, Sultan Hassan Mosque is the one for ancient Islamic Egypt. It was founded by Sultan Hassan, son of the great Mamluk Sultan Al Nasser Mohamed Ibn Qalawun.
  Sultan Hassan is not only famous for its size though. The mosque is noted as the most stylistically coherent of any of Cairo’s monumental mosques—a huge and prototypical example of architectural style of its day. The interior is beautifully decorated and the effect of its huge central court and imposing verticality is impressive.
  The mosque was designed in the madrassa style, rather than as a congregational mosque. For this reason it is laid out in a cruciform pattern with a liwan (teaching areas) on each of the four walls of the inner courtyard for each of the 4 main schools of Sunni Islamic theology—Hanafi, Malaki, Hanbali, and Shafi’i. The building also included housing for up to 500 students, as well as the teachers and staff required to run a school on this size.
• After This you will SeeAl-Rifa'i MosqueAl-Rifa'i Mosque, also known as Royal Mosque, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It is located in the Islamic Cairo district, next to the Mosque of Sultan Hassan and a 16-minute walk to the Ibn Tulun Mosque. It was built between 1869 and 1912. Having initially been commissioned by Khedive Ismail Pasha, it was finally completed by Khedive Abbas II, under the supervision of the Hungarian architect Max Herz. It is considered to be a fine example of Islamic architecture in Cairo.
  The al-Rifai Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Cairo and can accommodate up to 10,000 worshippers. The Mosque is built in the Ottoman style and is decorated with intricate marble work and stained glass windows. The Mosque also has several smaller domes and is illuminated by chandeliers.
• Then Citadel of Saladin The Citadel looks very different today than it did in its original capacity as a fortress the Crusader armies. It has been expanded and remodeled by many different rulers. In the 14th century, Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammed built a mosque there that still bears his name and the Southern Enclosure of the fort next to Saladin’s original walls. The most noticeable changes came in the 19th century.
• and During Visiting of Citadel of Saladin you will visitMuhammad Ali Mosque oHowever, when Muhammed Ali came to power, he was determined to erase the influence of the Mamluks, who had controlled Egypt for six centuries before him, and demolished their palaces within the fortress. He also built one of Cairo’s most recognizable landmarks.
  His Alabaster Mosque, built in memory of a deceased son, towers over the rest of the complex. Its silhouette is the most dominant feature of Cairo’s eastern skyline. In addition to these two mosques, the Citadel also contains the National Military Museum, full of uniforms and weapons from Egypt long history, a Police Museum, and several more museums dedicated to the palace of Muhammed Ali.
• Finally you will SeeAl-Azhar Mosque,The Al-Azhar Mosque was built between 970 and 972, during the period of the Fatimid Caliphate that dominated all of North Africa from present-day Morocco to the Red Sea. The new capital of the caliphate, Al-Qahirah, was under construction and required a large mosque for prayer and training. The temple soon became an important center of learning in the new city and, to this day, it remains the oldest functioning Islamic university in the world.
• after that, transfer you back to your hotel.