- Your guide will show you the Museum of textiles and the mosque of Al-Aqmar, before seeing, the best example of an old Cairo house.
- Mosque of al-Aqmar Facts: The name of the Mosque of al-Aqmar (the Moonlit Mosque) was supposedly inspired by the luminous quality of its grey stone.
- Al Aqmar Mosque is famed for its exterior designs, which make the site one of the most important Fatimid sites in Cairo.
- The Aqmar Mosque is a historic Fatimid mosque located on al-Mu'izz Street in the Islamic Cairo section of Cairo, Egypt.
- Description; Aqmar Mosque is one of Egypt’s most magnificent Fatimid mosques and the oldest of the country’s remaining tiny mosques.
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- The Aqmar Mosque, was built in Cairo, Egypt, as a neighborhood mosque by the Fatimid vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi in 1125-6 CE. Mapcarta, the open map.
- The most distinctive feature of the Al-Aqmar Mosque is its main facade, which is the oldest surviving stone facade.
- Originally, the Al-Aqmar mosque was not in the street as it is today, but much higher than in the street, standing on top of a row of shops.