Islamic Cairo Images
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Bab al-Barqiyya (possibly the historic Bab al-Jadid), an Ayyubid gate rediscovered during excavations in 1998
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Part of the Ayyubid eastern wall, between al-Darb al-Ahmar neighbourhood and al-Azhar Park
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Part of the preserved Fatimid northern wall near Bab al-Futuh, built in the late 11th century
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Ghuriya buildings and the market street in between them, painted by David Roberts in 1839.
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Map of historic Cairo, overlaid with present road network, with most of the main surviving monuments indicated.
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Al-Azhar Mosque, founded by the Fatimids in 972. (The minarets were added later during the Mamluk period.)
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Bab al-Futuh, one of the northern gates of Cairo built by the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali in the late 11th century
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The Mosque of Ibn Tulun, built in the 9th century. It is a rare and outstanding example of preserved Abbasid architecture outside Iraq.
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