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 Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...

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	Madrasa Khanqah of Sultan Al Zahir Barquq-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The facade of this Madrasa Khanqah, founded by Circassian origin Sultan Barquq is paneled with recesses surmounted by stalactites. The upper windows have pointed arches as well as wooden grills.
	The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Inal-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The Funerary and Religious Complex, on the west side of the road that crosses the City of the Dead, has in its eastern facade of this structure a mosque with a groin-vaulted portal and a single minaret. To the right is the mausoleum.
	The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Qaytbay-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Sultan Mamluk Qaytbay was a prolific sponsor of important monuments in Egypt. The complex contains a mosque with a groin vaulted trilobed portal,a madrasa and the founder's mausoleum.
	The Funerary Complex of Sultan al Ashraf Qaytbay-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Rising from the structure on the southeast side is a magnificent mausoleum dome. Its surface is adorned with a carved straight-lined star pattern superimposed on another carved network of undulating arabesques.
	The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas, dating to 1506-07, adjoins that of Inal to the north. The funerary complex, which included a Friday (congregational) mosque with Sufi hudur services, has a layout very similar to that of Sultan Qaytbay's mosque.
	The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The dome has the same proportions and even the same scale as that of Qaytbay's mausoleum, though of less intricate geometric adornment. Here, the dome has carved lozenges in the lower part and a zigzag pattern on the upper section.
	The funerary complex of Amir Qurqumas-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Like the Sultan Qaytbay's mosque, the minaret is at the right of the portal, with the sabil-kuttab (public drinking fountain and school) on the left side and the dome on the southeast corner of the building adjoining the prayer hall.
	El Aqmar Mosque-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: El-Aqmar (also known as the Gray Mosque), means "The Moonlit". It was founded during the caliphate of al-Mustansir. It was the first mosque with an entrance that is not on an axis with the qibla wall an it was also the first to have a decorated stone facade.
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