Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad

The grave complex of al - Shaykh Mu'ayyad is in Cairo and is a testimony of Islamic architecture. The construction consists of a mosque, said to have been built on the site of a prison, in which the emperor is said to have even been eating itself. An important part of the plant was a Madrasa. The building was constructed from 1415 to 1420 by al- Shaykh Mu'ayyad. The Madrasa long remained an important center of Islamic learning in Cairo.

Should have worked 30 and 100 construction workers builders for construction. As an architect, al -Qadi Baha ad-Din Muhammad al- Burj has been handed down. According to reports, the workers should have been treated well, but had no qualms components of the rulers to take as pillars and bronze doors of other structures, but this was usual at that time. The building stands next to the Bab Zuwalya, the southern gate of the medieval Cairo.

The building has two minarets, which are the city walls on the Bab Zuwalya. A third minaret fell already in 1427 one, was again rebuilt, but disappeared in the Nineteenth Century.

The actual building is square in about and detached. To the east of the main entrance is located next to the actual mausoleum is covered with a dome. Here are buried in al - Mu'ayyad Sheikh and his son. The monumental entrance is one of the last monumental gates that were built in the Mamluk Cairo. Its bronze door is from the Sultan Hassan mosque, where al - Sheikh Mu'ayyad had to pay a high price for this gate, but was nevertheless criticized for it by another sacred building filled this goal. The gate is richly decorated with Stukaturen and marble. The subsequent mosque consists of a portico, which was flanked to the south by two other mausoleums. In the West, there was a large yard.