The Mosques of Cairo

 Since we have been here we have probably seen hundreds of different mosques. They range in size and age. Some very new all the way to the 4th oldest mosque in the entire world. Mosques here are also different heights. Some hundreds of feet to some of them only being a few stories high. Every time we see a new one it is somehow different. There are even small mosques in malls and businesses here in Egypt. The most famous mosque here is called Mehemet Ali Pasa Camii meaning The Mosque of Mohamed Ali. No not the boxer :-) There will be a separate blog for that mosque. Below is several pictures of different mosques around Cairo that we have seen with all our traveling and discovering the city.

Two mosques only a block apart while we are driving to Carrefour.

One of the larger mosques we have seen, each of those towers the Ima'am would ascend to give the prayer and song at Call of Prayer.

 Most of the mosques here have these tall towers you see in the above picture. Many years ago the Ima'am would have to ascend the tower to do the call of prayer. Years later now and thanks to technology many of these now are rigged with loud speakers and they can do it from a a microphone below.

One of the larger Mosques in Downtown Cairo.

 The picture above and the picture below is the 4th oldest mosque in the world. It has been remodeled several times in those years. This is found after the city of the dead and right before Coptic Cairo.

A view of another mosque from the Mosque of Mohamed Ali. Also you can see Cairo in the background.

This is a mosque just as you enter the market in Cairo, this is used by many to be able to find their way back out of the market. Due to it size you can see it from all the small alley ways.