The Islamic City · event 4 of 15

879

The Mosque of Ibn Tulun. Completed in brick and stucco with a spiral minaret copied from Samarra. It is the only surviving building of al-Qata’i and the oldest mosque in Cairo in its original form.

The The Islamic City era

  1. 641
  2. 750
  3. 868
  4. 879
  5. 969
  6. 970
  7. 1087
  8. 1168
  9. 1171
  10. 1176
  11. 1250
  12. 1258
  13. 1348
  14. 1356–1363
  15. 1474

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