Ahmad Abn Tulun Mosque

Ahmad Abn Tulun Mosque is the third established in Egypt, it is the oldest mosque plotting and retained many of the original details and has oldest minaret found in Egypt.

Date Created:

Ahmad Ibn Tulun built his palace at the foot of the Mokattam and established the field in front of it, and after he had finished from the founding of the city of Alktaea, built University on Mount thank began to build the year 263 AH: 876/77 m and completed by the year 265 AH: 879 m and this blogger history marble Sticky Pad on A gallery shoulders direction. Whole though third mosques established in Egypt, is the oldest mosque kept plotting and many of the details of the original Ammaria, as the first of these mosques Amr, who Mosque built in 21 AH / 642 AD, leaving the impact of the old building, and the second is an umbrella military, which was built In the year 169 AH: 785/86 m has been removed with the end of the military.

Restored in modern times:

Valuable twelfth century AH - the eighth century AD - This mosque was used as a factory for woolen belts, as used in the middle of the eighteenth century, a refuge for the elderly. Then came the Commission for the Conservation of Arab Monuments 1882, and taken into repaired and restored, that was in 1918 when King Fouad I ordered to prepare a draft of the reformed comprehensive reform, and abandoning what turned him from buildings, earmarked for that forty thousand pounds, spent in the evaluation of what falter from its construction, and the renewal of the roof, and restoration of decoration to be restored and opened in 2005, as one of the 38 mosque was Termamanm within the Historic Cairo project, the Ministry of Culture has announced that the restoration of the mosque cost exceeded 12 million pounds.

Architectural design:

The mosque consists of an open Middle dish, almost equal ribs, along the rib 92 meters, and dome in the middle mounted on the neck of an octagonal, placed on a square base by four arched openings, It is surrounded by a la carte four galleries, the largest gallery of direction and has five rows of pointed contracts carried on the shoulders of a rectangular sector, round corners in the form attached to the poles, while the other three arcades all well only two rows. It covers the four corridors ceiling of modern wood-made, work on the same old pattern of the ceiling, and put Bosfielh re-old wooden Mizar, labeled of Quranic verses in Kufic script magnifier.

Whole length 138 m long and almost 118 meters, surrounded by three sides - North, West and South - three increases display, each 19 meters approximately, two components with a combined square along the rib 162 meters, and mediates the unique Western increase in kind minaret of the mosque, which does not There are analogous in the minarets of Cairo and most likely it was built on the foundations of the original minaret of the mosque, because this minaret was built in the Mamluk period, and might have been built on the minaret of the Mosque of Samarra model, a square from the bottom, then cylindrical and ends octagonal topped with a dome and a height of forty meters.

The views of the four combined characterized by simplicity, not the types of decoration only a row of stucco windows circle the various forms and various covenants, which ends balconies vicious exquisite. And in front of each section of the mosque, there is a door in the fence increase - external - in addition to a small opening in the wall used as a door that  lead to the emirate's house created by Ahmad Ibn Tulun mosque in the east of that.

The number of entries Ibn Tulun Mosque 19 input, but the main entrance is next to the currently Gayer Anderson Museum entrance, where there are above board due to the renewal of the reign of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir