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Alexandria's Fort, Qaitbay Citadel's Amazing View
// Christine Ghobrial // 26 May 2011 // 3 Comments
The Qaitbay Fort is one of the major historic military construction sites which has been ordered to rise in protection o...
Wekalet El-Ghouri, from Trade to Arts
// Enas El Masry // 30 May 2011 // 2 Comments
Five hundred and fifty years ago, in the heart of Islamic Cairo, during the Mamlukes era was one of several trade points...
Cairo Tower, The Highest Deck Above Cairo
// Christine Ghobrial // 10 Jul 2011 // 0 Comments
Ranked as the highest tower in Egypt, Cairo Tower was built during the reign of president Gamal Abdel Nasser, as a bold ...
The Venue of Written History, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
// Susi Wegener // 13 Jul 2011 // 4 Comments
Bibliotheca Alexandrina was built near the sea starting in 1974, when a committee from the Alexandrian University decide...
The Step Pyramid, the First Pyramid Ever Built
// Christine Ghobrial // 30 Jul 2011 // 6 Comments
The story behind the pyramid of Djoser,or I’d rather say, the Step pyramid where King Djoser ordered to build Saqqara ...
Top Things To Do in Cairo
// Christine Ghobrial // 27 Aug 2011 // 1 Comments
The ancient civilization of Egypt has lasted over 3,000 years with an unprecedented history and unique culture that has ...
The Alabaster Mosque of Muhammed Ali
// Christine Ghobrial // 30 Aug 2011 // 4 Comments
Muhammed Ali’s mosque was built on the highest summit on the site of Saladin Citadel in Cairo, which is a major landma...
What the Romans Left Behind in Alexandria, an Ancient Amphitheater
// Karen Anwar // 29 Nov 2011 // 4 Comments
If you’re in Egypt, paying Alexandria a visit, you should enlist the Roman amphitheater trip within your plan of your ...
The Neighborhood of Great Mosques around Islamic Cairo
// Christine Ghobrial // 21 Dec 2011 // 3 Comments
Islamic art is a wonder worldwide, because of the many complex patterns showing in repetitive forms and hypnotic charact...
Philae Temple
// Karen Anwar // 9 May 2012 // 4 Comments
Philae island owned the last sacred temples of Ancient Egyptian architecture wealth where Pharaohs, Greco-romans and Chr...
Basata, A Cultural Experience Beyond Accommodation in Sinai
// Christine Ghobrial // 22 May 2012 // 1 Comments
Have you ever kept it simple and turned down luxury for the sake of breaking a routine choice for the holidays?! Basata ...
Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai
// Karen Anwar // 11 Jun 2012 // 2 Comments
In honor of Saint Catherine, a Christian woman who was beheaded in a time where Christians were prosecuted by the Roman ...
Top Things To Do Downtown Cairo, An Oriental Appeal
// Egyptolution // 8 Jul 2012 // 4 Comments
1930's architecture buildings, a cozy Qahwa or Kahwa, what Egyptians call their oriental old-styled cafes, a place to ha...
Muhammad Ali Pasha Mosque or called the alabaster mosque in Saladin Citadel in old Cairo in Egypt. A Turkish ottoman amazing architecture that was built in Mamluke time, strange but beautiful!
This is a teaser about Egyptolution heading to Hurghada next! Hurghada is the city of holidays on the Red Sea with many places to visit and wide options to enjoy your accommodation style!
From the Neighborhood of Great Mosques in Old Cairo, Ar-Rifai mosque may seem newer and more modern from inside compared to Sultan Hassan’s mosque. It was used to be a shrine to the medieval Islamic Ahmed Ar-Rifai who was believed to own healing powers back in the time of the 12th century. The mosque was built on his shrine, as it was founded in 1819 and completed in 1912 by several architects where Europhile Khedive Ismail, intended to build as a tomb for his mother’s family, Princess Khushayar, in the 19th century. The mosque followed a Mameluke’s style designs and ended up as a failure imitation from existing historical mosques compared to Sultan Hassan’s mosque. Recognized by its rich marble and golden decoration of the mosque spreads the Islamic artistic patters for the fancy tombs of the royal family’s members, including Khedive Ismail and King Farouk, who was the last king who ruled Egypt. As well as buried in those tombs the last shah of Iran, who found refuge in Egypt after escaping Khomeini’s Islamic revolution in 1979.
Sultan Hassan Mosque overlooks the Muhammed Ali's mosque and Citadel of Great Islamic Cairo and it is right situated next ar-Rifai Mosque. Amazingly it is mostly recognized by its great huge walled interiors and four corners employed as a school for different Islamic directions. This mosque also owns the largest mausoleum (huge tomb) and huge mihrab which was actually used to bury the sultan’s two sons as sultan Hassan’s body was not recovered since the time of his murder.
Did you know that Philae Temple sruvived 40 years of being submerged under water and was removed, divided and reassembled back on Agilika island? 550 meters away from Philae island where it originally belonged, it was was rescued to stand as a magnificent temple of the Ancient Egypt. It was a whole restoration project that intended to save the temple from submerging in water after building the High Dam of Aswan. Absolutely, in the eyes of everyone, was quite a successful project in cooperation with Egyptian government and UNESCO to re-establish Philae complex again on safe grounds as sacred monuments in 1960.
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