Photos of Mosque of Muhammad Ali

The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha or Alabaster Mosque by paweesit

The mosque was built on the site of old Mamluk buildings in Cairo's Citadel between 1830 and 1848, although not completed until the reign of Said Pasha in 1857. The architect was Yusuf Bushnak from Istanbul and its model was the Yeni Mosque in that city. The ground on which the mosque was erected was built with debris from the earlier buildings of the Citadel.
Mosque of Muhammad Ali (العربية: جامع محمد علي) is a tourist attraction, one of the Mosques in Cairo, Egypt. It is located: 17 km from Giza, 510 km from Port Said, 550 km from Alexandria. Read further
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