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Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan
Maydan Salah al-Din, Cairo, Egypt Not AvailableAbout
I was excited about visiting the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, which I have seen many times from outside but never ventured within. It was a school, or madrasa, but for the first time in Cairo , the madrasa had also the status of a congregational mosque for Friday sermons. There are many interesting stories about this mosque, which is considered to be Cairo's finest example of early Mamluk architecture. In fact, many guide books refer to it as the finest ancient mosque in Cairo, and has been praised as one of the major monuments of the Islamic world. This monument is best seen in the morning, when the sun lights up the mausoleum and the western iiwan.
