Aqsunqur Mosque

The, also known as Blue Mosque Aqsunqur or Ibrahim Agha- Mustahfizan Mosque was built in the years 1346-1347 as a grave complex for the Emir Shams al-Din Aqsunqur to - Nasiri, a son of the Egyptian Mamluk Sultan al - Nasir Muhammad, .

The mosque stands on the edge of the Old Cairo in the Tabbana - road that leads to the citadel. The construction data are known from inscriptions on the mosque. According to the historian al - Maqrizi there was next to the mosque nor a mausoleum, a school ( maktab ) and a device called sabil, donated the water to the thirsty. The latter two buildings are now gone.

The building is in the plan approximately rectangular with a triangular attachment to the front, where there is above all the input. Here is also the minaret of the building and the mausoleum, but in which not Aqsunqur was buried on - Nasiri, but Sultan al - Ashraf Kudschuk whose bones have been reburied only later here.

The actual mosque consists of a large courtyard, which is surrounded on all sides by covered pillars. Opposite the entrance is a marble Minbar. This is the first of its kind in Cairo, the same built as part of the building, and was not put here as an individual part.

At the time of Ottoman rule, the Mosque of Ibrahim Agha was taken. The Janissary who was also buried here, let restore the building and 1652-64 those blue tiles attach, which are the reason for the name " Blue Mosque ".