List of mosques in Cairo

Cairo holds one of the greatest concentrations of historical monuments of Islamic architecture in the world, and includes mosques and Islamic religious complexes from diverse historical periods. Many buildings were primarily designated as madrasas, khanqahs or even mausoleums rather than mosques, but have nonetheless served as places of worship or prayer at some time or another, if not today.[1]

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Cairo skyline featuring numerous minarets.

Rashidunids
Name Images Year Neighborhood Remarks
Mosque of Amr ibn al-As 642
Fustat
30°0′36.50″N 31°13′59.38″E
 The oldest mosque in Africa. (Although the building has been rebuilt and modified many times after its foundation.)

Abbasids
Name Images Year District Remarks
Mosque of ibn Tulun 884
Sayeda Zainab
30°01′44″N 31°14′58″E
 The oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area

Fatimids
Name Images Year District Remarks
Al-Azhar Mosque 969
El-Hussein
30.0457°N 31.2627°E / 30.0457; 31.2627
 National mosque
Al-Hakim Mosque 1013
Lulua Mosque 1015
Juyush Mosque 1085
Al-Hussein Mosque 1154
El-Hussein
30°2′52″N 31°15′47″E
Aqmar Mosque 1125
Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya 1133
al-Khalifa
Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque 1160

Mamluks
Name Images Year District Remarks
Mosque of Sultan Al-Zahir Baybars 1269
al-Husayniya
Qalawun Mosque 1284-1285
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Madrassa of Al-Nasir Muhammad 1303
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Khanqah of Baybars (II) al-Jashankir 1310
al-Gamaliyya
Madrasa of Amir Sunqur Sa'di 1321
Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque 1334
Cairo Citadel
Mosque of Al-Maridani 1339
El-Darb El-Ahmar
30.036°N 31.260°E / 30.036; 31.260
Aqsunqur Mosque 1347
El-Darb El-Ahmar
30.036°N 31.260°E / 30.036; 31.260
Shaykhu Mosque 1349
Mosque of Amir al-Sayf Sarghatmish 1356
Sayeda Zainab
Mosque of Sultan Hassan 1362
Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban 1368-69
Al-Darb al-Ahmar
Mosque of Sultan Barquq 1386
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Mosque of Mahmud al-Kurdi 1395
Mosque of Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar 1407
Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq 1411
Northern Cemetery
Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi 1413
Mosque of Sultan Al-Muayyad 1420
Mosque-Madrasa of al-Ashraf Barsbay 1424
al-Muizz street
Khanqah-Mausoleum of al-Ashraf Barsbay 1432
Northern Cemetery
Mosque of Taghribardi 1440
Mosque-Mausoleum complex of al-Ashraf Qaytbay 1472
Northern Cemetery
Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque 1481
El-Darb El-Ahmar
30.036°N 31.260°E / 30.036; 31.260
Khayrbak Mosque 1502
El-Darb El-Ahmar
30.036°N 31.260°E / 30.036; 31.260
Mosque of Qanibay ar-Rammah 1503
Al-Ghuri Mosque 1503
El-Hussein
30°2′45.78″N 31°15′35.57″E

Ottomans and Alawiyya Dynasty
Name Images Year District Remarks
Demerdash Mosque 1523
Sulayman Pasha Mosque 1528
Cairo Citadel
Mosque of Mahmud Pasha (al-Mahmudiyya) 1567
Sinan Pasha Mosque 1571
Bulaq
Al-Burdayni Mosque 1629
Mosque of Abu Dahab 1774
El-Hussein
Mosque of Muhammad Ali 1830
Cairo Citadel
Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar 1839
Sayeda Zainab Mosque 1887 (present building)
Sayeda Zainab
Sayeda Aisha Mosque 1895 (present building)
al-Khalifa
Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque 1897 (present building)
al-Khalifa
Al-Rifa'i Mosque 1911

Modern
Name Images Year District Remarks
Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque
Al-Fath Mosque

See also

References

Cited:

  1. Williams 2018

General:

  • Behrens-Absouseif, Doris (1989). Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden, the Netherlands: E.J. Brill.
  • O'Kane, Bernard (2016). The Mosques of Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
  • Williams, Caroline (2018). Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide (7th ed.). Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.


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