The Egyptians have a special love and great commentator for the tombs of the righteous family and the righteous saints and their numerous mosques in Cairo, which have dozens of mosques of historical and spiritual value for the family of the home crowded with thousands of people whose hearts descend to the family throughout the year, especially on the nights of the blessed month of Ramadan.
Egyptians from different groups from all governorates flock to the whole month of Ramadan to bless the shrine of the family of the house and spend one or more nights in the holy month in the arms of one of these mosques to bless the owners of the family of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, with prayers.
One of the most famous mosques in Cairo is the Al-Hussein Mosque, which is located in the heart of Cairo near the Khan Al-Khalili area in the Al-Hussein neighborhood, and is considered one of the most important landmarks of Cairo. In this mosque, although there are different accounts about this fact. The mosque was built during the reign of the Fatimids in the year 549 AH corresponding to the year 1154 AD, under the supervision of Minister Al-Talei ‘, and it includes three doors built in white marble overlooking Khan Al-Khalili, and another door next to the dome and known as the green door. You can also take Egypt tourist tours with Cairo Top Tours during Egypt’s Islamic tours
Then comes the Mosque of Sayyida Zainab, as the second most important mosque, as it is considered the Al-Barakat Mosque, where people go to the shrine in the western side of the mosque, which is surrounded by a copper chapel and topped by a small dome of wood, and the mausoleum is surmounted by a high dome in the Mamluk style, which is filled with Arab decorations and muqarnas The writings, and the Secretary General of the Union of Sufi Forces indicated that the mosque from the inside is covered and engraved with Arabic motifs based on columns of white marble. It out Babek of stucco local stained glass.
The Nafisa El-Alam Mosque, “El-Sayyida Nafisa”, comes as the third important mosque for the family of Egypt’s families. There is a copper shrine erected over the grave of Mrs. Nafisa. Nafisa, inside the mosque: “The throne of truth, the landing of secrets, the grave of Nafisa, the daughter of Anwar, Hassan bin Zaid Al-Hassan, son of Imam Ali, the uncle of Mustafa, the chosen one.”
On the road leading to Ain al-Sira overlooking the Mosque of Sayyida Aisha, the mausoleum of Sayyidah Aisha was initially small and simple, it was from a square room topped by a dome centered on two rows of muqarnas and then interested in its Fatimid architecture and the Ayyubids, where they established next to the mausoleum a school for memorizing the Holy Quran, and When Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi surrounded Cairo, Al-Askar, Al-Qata’ea and Al-Fustat with a wall separating the dome of Sayyidah Aisha and between the Qarafa, then a door was opened in the wall to the Qarafa, called the Aisha Gate, and it is now known as the Qarafa Gate, and a mosque known as the Lady of Aisha Mosque was attached to the mausoleum. Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda built it in 1176 AH / 1762 CE, and then demolished Grandfather and was rebuilt in 1971 on what it is now.
In the modern era, Egypt completely renovated the mosque, where the stones of the (Awlad Annan) mosque, whose place is now (Al-Fateh Mosque) in Ramses Square, were transferred to it, and the copper mosque, which was on the tomb of Sayyida Zainab Bint Ali, was transferred to it before the gift of the silver cabin now on its grave. From the “Bohra” sect.
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