Al-Aqmar Mosque
A small Fatimid mosque of 1125 with the first richly carved stone façade in Cairo — shell niches, inscriptions and light.
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Al-Azhar Mosque
Founded in 970 with the city itself — Cairo's first mosque and one of the world's oldest seats of learning, under five minarets.
Al-Rifa'i Mosque
Egypt's royal mausoleum in neo-Mamluk dress — the tombs of Khedive Ismail, King Farouk and the last Shah of Iran.
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