Al-Hussein Mosque

The Sayyidna al- Husayn Mosque (Arabic جامع سيدنا الحسين, DMG Ǧāmi saiyidunā ʿ al -Husayn ) is located in the old city of Cairo, Egypt, near the Khan El Khalili Bazaar, near the famous Al-Azhar mosque.

Both her ​​and six other places ( including the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus ) to be due at the Battle of Karbala (680 ) severed head of the Shiite Imam al -Husayn, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad is buried. Therefore, the great Friday Mosque is one of the most sacred places of Egypt and attracts many pilgrims. Major festivals are celebrated here every year to commemorate.

The original structure from which nothing has or will receive almost nothing goes back to the Fatimids, the head of Husayn in 1153 from Ashkelon shall have (then fell to the Crusaders ) in their capital transferred. From Ayyubid period still exists a richly decorated minaret, which was built according to an inscription in 1237 on behalf of Abu l -Qasim Yahya ibn Nasir as- Sukkari ( called az- Zarzur ). The other minaret was built in the Ottoman style just like the entire rest of the building around 1874 Ismail Pasha.

Before the mosque are three huge screens that open on Fridays to donate those visitors who no longer fit into the crowded prayer hall shadows.

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Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria visited the mosque on his trip to Egypt:

" First, we entered the vestibule of the big beautiful mosque Gama el- Hâssanên, built in honor of Hassan and slipcovers, the sons of Ali, the son- of the Prophet. Hussen had fallen 680 AD Born in the Battle of Karbala; his head is buried here in the mosque "