Mosque-madrassa Of Sultan Hassan Cairo
by Cinoby
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Mosque-madrassa Of Sultan Hassan Cairo
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Cinoby
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Photograph - Photography
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'View from the citadel of Old Cairo - Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan HassanThe Sultan Hassan Mosque is considered stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo monuments. It is one of the masterpieces of Mamluk architecture. The building was commissioned by Sultan Hassan bin Al-Nasir Muhammad bin Qalawun in 1356 AD as a mosque and religious school for all four juristic branches of Sunni Islam.It was designed so that each of the four schools of thought - Shafi, Maliki, Hanafi and Hanbali - has its own area while sharing the mosque.'
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January 17th, 2019
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