Referred to as Islamic Cairo, this district is filled with over 600 stunning medieval buildings. Some of its finest can be found on Al-Mu’izz Street. Here's what you can find on this UNESCO World Heritage Street. #Travel #Cairo #IslamicCairo #OldCairo #AlMuizzStreet

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From the hilltop citadel to the medieval mosques below, there is much to see in Islamic Cairo. We explore the historic Saladin Citadel and the medieval mosques in this fascinating part of Cairo. #Cairo #Islamicarchitecture #Citadel #OldCairo #IslamicCairo

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See some of Cairo's finest Islamic architecture in al-Muizz Street, the subject of today's post. With madradas, mausoleums, mosques, and more.

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𓃭 Time stands still in Islamic Cairo

Where every stone whispers:
• 7th-century shadows in Al-Hakim's mosque
• Saladin's Citadel guards secrets in its alabaster walls

This isn't a museum - it's history that never ended.

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✨ Time-travel through Islamic Cairo on El Moez Street ✨

Walk the same path as Fatimid caliphs since 969 AD through this living museum of Islamic architecture.

A full sensory journey through 10 centuries of history.

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Almost as vertiginous as the cliffs of Constantine, but I made it to the very top of Bab Zuweila's minarets to be rewarded with views across the rooftops of #IslamicCairo

Magnificent muqarnas #IslamicCairo

Part of the huge 14th century mosque-madrasa complex of Sultan Hassan in #IslamicCairo

The two domes of this mosque contain the tombs of Mamluk emirs Sayf al-Dīn Salār al-Manṣūrī (viceroy of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad) and Sanjar al-Jawali (Governor of Gaza & Palestine). There's also a madrasa & a Sufi khankah - rather like the zāwiya in Algeria #IslamicCairo

City of a thousand minarets....

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Inside the Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad at night #IslamicCairo

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Decorated minbah and ceiling inside the 15th century Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad, built on the site of the former prison where he was incarcerated #IslamicCairo

It's been over a week since I walked these streets #IslamicCairo

For comparison, two late 19th century photographs of the mosque & madrasa of Uljay al-Yusufi on Cairo's Suq al-Silas street: by Jean Pascal Sébah (L) and Félix Bonfils (R)

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