Alabaster Mosque (Mohammad Ali Mosque) Cairo

Citadel, Cairo , Egypt

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    touring Cairo (religious sites and more)

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    ... we visited the Mohammed Ali Citadel  The mosque was built between 1830-1840. This mosque is also sometimes referred to as the Alabaster Mosque due to its extensive use of that stone on some of the exterior walls and other surfaces. Sometimes it is ...

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    Islamic Cairo, Bazaar & The Dirty Bird

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    ... Yasser was trying to take our picture, I’m sure 20 boys took our picture too.  Hilarious.  The Mohammed Ali Alabaster Mosque was brilliant.  Lots of renovations were being done to the exterior, but I can only imagine the renos on ...

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    Cairo, A City of Antiquity

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    ... medieval fortress built in the twelfth century by Salah ad-Din, better known to westerners as Saladin.  Here we saw the Alabaster Mosque of Mohammed Ali which is beautiful inside and out and with a beautiful courtyard. It was built between 1830-1857 ...

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    Pyramids and Museum

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    Alabaster Mosque Today we started by meeting Osman, our guide, and then going to the Alabaster Mosque. The Alabaster Mosque is huge, modeled after the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, and is inside a fort built by Saladin in 1187. This fort is the largest in ...

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    Museums and Mosques and Churches...oh my!

    ... a guide that can just tell you about stuff.    Onwards in the purported 38 degree heat to the Mohammad Ali Alabaster Mosque. It resembles the blue mosque in Istanbul and is apparently built by the same dude. We take our shoes off and ...

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    Cairo and the pyramids in Giza

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    ... we visited the Mohammed Ali Citadel  The mosque was built between 1830-1840. This mosque is also sometimes referred to as the Alabaster Mosque due to its extensive use of that stone on some of the exterior walls and other surfaces. Sometimes it is ...

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    Cairo...

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    ...   For a change of pace we headed into Islamic Cairo to check out the Citadel, and Mohammed Ali's Mosque (or the Alabaster Mosque.) The mosque itself was stunning; the view of the city rendered me speechless. It was really interesting to enter, ...

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    Cairo, pyramids and camels

    ... 2 million live among the tombs. The citadel is a large area but there is nothing in any of the buildings, under utilised. The Alabaster Mosque is the main attraction, though there is not much alabaster left, Ahmed told us that King Farouk sent it over to ...

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    ... el Din) in the 11th century. In early 19th century Muhammed Ali, Ottoman and modernizer of Egypt after French initiatives there under Napolean, built the Alabaster Mosque. Walked through the Kahn El Khalili market and had lunch at a GAD, just near ...

  • 10

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    ... the Nile in this really cool tent thing. It was really fun. Then we finished out the day by visiting first the Alabaster mosque of Muhammed Ali and then an active mosque where we witnessed the evening prayers. It was a very interesting experience. The ...