Mohamed Ali Mosque is a mosque built by Muhammad Ali Pasha, Citadel of Salah al-Din inside the Egyptian capital; Cairo, between the period from 1830 to 1848.
This mosque is the most beautiful facilities, Muhammad Ali Pasha, and had been initiated in the year 1246 build (1830 m) and the work continued without interruption until it died in 1265 AH (1848 AD) was buried, and then ordered to complete the decoration Abbas Pasha I. The mosque is in a total of rectangular construction and is divided into two sections: the East is prepared for prayers, and western, a dish Ttosth ablutions fountain, and all of the sections, two doors facing each other, one tribal and other nautical The Section eastern square length Dilgh from within 41 meters Ttosth dome high radius of 21 meters and a height of 52 meters on level ground Mosque-mounted four shoulders square fundamentally four half-domes and then half of the Dome of the fifth covers the emergence of the mihrab and four domes that unlike other small elements of the mosque. Was lined with walls of the mosque from the inside and outside the marble Alabestr imported from quarries Bnysoev as well as the shoulders of the four internal-bearing dome has earned all the walls of the mosque, the top cladding marble from the inside blanks jewelry decorated with colored gold. The dome and large semi-domes have descended decorated with prominent colored gold. The second section, a dish Ttosth ablutions fountain, and the rear of the clock tower, which he gave to Muhammad Ali to Louis Philippe Malak France in 1845. The mosque has two minarets slender 84-meter high from ground level courtyard
Since the castle has been established by the Salah al-Din is the seat of government in the Ayyubid and Mamluk state, in the era of the Ottoman rulers in the era of the family and then the upper, and continued well into the era of Khedive Ismail, where Amer Abdeen Palace took the seat of the king. Took Muhammad Ali the great head of the family the upper and the founder of modern Egypt, after the reform of the walls of the castle, and the establishment of palaces, schools and government bureaucracy, and culminated in the facilities of this establishment of his mosque, the Great, who oversees the city of Cairo Bakbabh and minarets are a symbol of pride and prosperity. And has embarked on its creation in 1246 AH = 1830 on the ruins of old buildings, leaving the buildings and Mamluk architecture was in 1265 AH = 1848, During the reign of Abbas Pasha I was Nqoucheh and decoration. He has built this mosque, along the lines of Ottoman mosques built in Istanbul, and planning a square of side length 41 meters, covered in the center dome of large diameter 21 meters and a height of 52 meters mounted on four large contracts based on four shoulders huge, and on the dome of four semi-domes, in each half-dome, and pillars of the mosque, covering four small domes, except that half-dome covering the emergence of another kiss of process from the eastern side of the mosque. And coating the walls of the home and the shoulders of the four altitudes covering 11.30 meters of marble topped with colorful patterns, and sweetened with domes and half-dome high-relief decoration carved and gilded. On the western side of the mosque is a converted amount of bench on the columns and decades of alabaster, and took Drabzinha corridors and domes of the railings Bronzing busy. At the corner, the western tribal it is the tomb of Mohammed Ali the great topped with a combination of crushed marble decorations and beautiful writings, and surrounded by a zone of Bronzing is nicely wrought, is Abbas Pasha I work.
The original and the pulpit of the mosque is a large platform made of local wood decorated with gold, while the small marble platform to the left of the mihrab, he ordered the work of His Majesty King Farouq in 1358 AH = 1939. And illuminated by crystal chandeliers mosque surrounded by beautiful glass niches coordinated exquisite forms. And is based on the two sides of the western side of the mosque minarets slender figure Ostoanita Benita also on the model of the Turkish minarets, and the height of each of them 82 m from the ground. The mosque has three doors, one in the middle of the side sea, and the second in an interview in the mid-side tribal, and third in the middle of the side west, and leads to the dish room area of 53 53 m enveloping walls covering of marble, and surrounded by four galleries of its contracts and its columns of marble also, and Bostp place ablution, which is a dome mounted on eight columns with flap ornamented with a prominent gold, and the soles of the dome of a local graffiti colored and gilded represent landscapes, and the dome clad Kkabbab mosque sheets of lead and Bosfielha water tank which is an octagon covered by a dome all made of marble crushed motifs prominent. The top center of the western portico of the courtyard of the copper tower decorated inside ticking clock donated by King Louis Philippe of France to the late Mohammed, the year of 1845.
