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- The Aqmar Mosque is a historic Fatimid mosque located on al-Mu'izz Street in the Islamic Cairo section of Cairo, Egypt.
- 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.
- The al-Aqmar mosque was built at the northeastern corner of the Great Palace of East Fatimid and may have served neighborhood and palace citizens alike.
- 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.
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- Al Aqmar mosque is considered one of the first hanging mosques in Egyptian history and was initially built higher than street level, above a shopping area and souk.
- Al Aqmar Mosque is famed for its exterior designs, which make the site one of the most important Fatimid sites in Cairo.
- In the heart of the Fatimid city, north of the site once occupied by the great Fatimid palace, stands a small but important mosque known as al-Aqmar, which means...