Ottoman & Khedivial · event 5 of 11

1830–1848

The Muhammad Ali Mosque. Built at the Citadel in a deliberately Ottoman style, on the highest point in Cairo. The clock in its courtyard, a gift from France, has never worked.

The Ottoman & Khedivial era

  1. 1517
  2. 1798
  3. 1805
  4. 1811
  5. 1830–1848
  6. 1869
  7. 1860s–1870s
  8. 1882
  9. 1902
  10. 1919
  11. 1922

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