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Two minarets of Alazhar mosque..one belongs to the greatest Mamluke Sultan Qaitbey , a man who had a great passion for architecture , and the other belongs to the time of last Mamluke Sultan Alghuri💟 #alazhar ,#alazharmosque ,#cairotour ,#fatimidcairo ,#architecture ,#cairo🇪🇬 (at Al-Azhar Mosque) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByG0HHKg953/?igshid=1r41y9hkvsyvf

The shining Mosque "al-Azhar"💞💝 Alazhar was the first mosque established in Cairo, 972 A.C. the mosque slowly developed into what is today the second oldest continuously run university in the world after Al Karaouine in Idrisid Fes. Al-Azhar University has long been regarded as the foremost institution in the Islamic world for the study of Sunni theology and sharia, or Islamic law. #alazharcairo ,#alazharmosque ,#minarets ,#fatimidcairo ,#cairotour,#cairo🇪🇬 ,#architecture ,#mosquesofegypt ,#mosquesofworld (at Al-Azhar Mosque) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGzngYgRW1/?igshid=1jiz2p7sgxdeb

Bab Zuweila - one of the gates in the Fatimid city wall of Cairo. 1092 AD, about the time that William the Conqueror was building the White Tower in England. #cairoegypt #babzuweila #fatimidcairo #fatimids #cairogate #fatimidarchitecture #islamicarchitecture