List of mosques in Cairo

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Cairo skyline featuring numerous minarets.

Cairo has always been known as the City of a Thousand Minarets due to the large number of mosques, and its well-known reputation of a beautiful skyline of minarets that can be seen from any high roof. This is a list of mosques in Cairo from different dynastic periods.

Rashidunids

Name Images Year Neighborhood Remarks
Mosque of Amr ibn al-As 642
Fustat
30°0′36.50″N 31°13′59.38″E / 30.0101389°N 31.2331611°E / 30.0101389; 31.2331611
 The oldest mosque in Africa

Abbasids

Name Images Year District Remarks
Mosque of ibn Tulun 884
Sayeda Zainab
30°01′44″N 31°14′58″E / 30.02889°N 31.24944°E / 30.02889; 31.24944
 The oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area

Fatimids

Name Images Year District Remarks
Al-Azhar Mosque 969
El-Hussein
30°02′45″N 31°15′46″E / 30.0457°N 31.2627°E / 30.0457; 31.2627
 National mosque
Al-Hakim Mosque 1013
Lulua Mosque 1015
Juyush Mosque 1085
Al-Hussein Mosque 1154
El-Hussein
30°2′52″N 31°15′47″E / 30.04778°N 31.26306°E / 30.04778; 31.26306
Aqmar Mosque 1125
Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque 1160
Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque

Mamluks

Name Images Year District Remarks
Mosque of Sultan Al-Zahir Baybars 1269
Qalawun Mosque 1304
Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque 1334
Mosque of Al-Maridani 1339
Aqsunqur Mosque 1347
El-Darb El-Ahmar
30°02′10″N 31°15′36″E / 30.036°N 31.260°E / 30.036; 31.260
Shaykhu Mosque 1349
Mosque of Amir al-Sayf Sarghatmish 1356
Mosque of Sultan Hassan 1362
Mosque of Sultan Barquq 1386
Mosque of Sultan Al-Muayyad 1410
Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi 1413
Al Ashraf Mosque 1424
Mosque of Taghribardi 1440
Qaytbay Mosque 1472
Khayrbak Mosque 1502
Mosque of Qanibay ar-Rammah 1503
Al-Ghuri Mosque 1503
El-Hussein
30°2′45.78″N 31°15′35.57″E / 30.0460500°N 31.2598806°E / 30.0460500; 31.2598806

Ottomans and Alawiyya Dynasty

Name Images Year District Remarks
Demerdash Mosque 1523
Sulayman Pasha Mosque 1528
Al-Burdayni Mosque 1629
Mosque of Abu Dahab 1703
El-Hussein
Mosque of Muhammad Ali 1830
Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar 1839
Al-Rifa'i Mosque 1911
Sayeda Zainab Mosque 1940
Sayeda Zainab

Modern

Name Images Year District Remarks
Sayeda Aisha Mosque 1971
Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque

See also

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