Ibn Tulun Mosque

In the first place Ibn Tulun Mosque is One of the most famous and oldest historical mosques in Egypt, it is famous for being the first mosque with a 40-meter-high spiral minaret in the country, and it was built on a rocky knoll called "Yashkar" in Mokattam Mountain, with an area of about 6.5 acres.

Ahmed ibn Tulun Mosque Facts

You will see a large nave around which several arcades revolve and from its four sides, the mosque is built of burnt bricks.

The mosque has 300 columns, in addition to a wooden pulpit decorated with Islamic art and above it is the foundation plate La Jin 696.

The area of the Ahmed bin Tulun Mosque is 6 and a half acres, the mosque contains 129 windows on 4 sides of the nave, and all the windows except for 4 windows have been renovated and developed from the era of building the mosque.

In the other hallway, you will see carvings of Arabesque art elements, where each decade of the mosque is founded on 4 pointed-shaped columns resting on strong supports.

You will find 6 niches facing the qibla at the left wall of the entrance gate of the mosque and is considered the place of qibla of Ahmed bin Tulun Mosque, where the energy niches were made of the finest types of wood and date back to the Tuluni, Fatimid and Mamluk era that ruled Egypt.

You will see a Kufic inscription on the fourth pillar in the name of the best Shahanshah bin Badr al-Jamali and dates back to 487 Hijri, which is from the reign of Al-Mustansir Fatimi, a warrior with Tolonian origins.

What you can see inside Ibn Tulun Mosque

In the center of the mosque is a large portico that was used for religious ceremonies and ceremonies to read the Holy Quran in the thirteenth century.

Also, The Ahmed bin Tulun Mosque features a 40-meter-high cone-shaped minaret with a ribbed cap in the form of a censer, as it is said that Ahmed bin Tulun climbed on top of the minaret while riding a horse, and the minaret of the Ahmed bin Tulun Mosque is considered the only minaret in terms of design and ancient Islamic style in Egypt.

Finally One of the funny things that faced the construction of the mosque is that the architect who supervised the construction of the mosque did a strange move of "wrapping a paper stationery in his hands" to show the workers the shape of the minaret that he wanted, to finally get its current shape