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Continuing my journy with my friends around Egypt, we visited Bab El Nasr district in Cairo, where glory of the past embraces the liveliness of the present. There were numerous worth admiration and worth visiting places with different architectural styles and dating back to numerous historical periods through out the history of Egypt.
First sight to attract our attention was the gracious structure known as Cairo walls that streches for hundreds of meters along the way leading to the main portal of Bab El Nasr. It stand as a high stone walls with fascinating geometrically shaped battlements surrounding its top. Interestingly, we were haunted by the beauty of the Fatimid Minaret gracefully standing next to the main entrance of Bab El Nasr. We highly admired the portal for its architectural style that is regarded as a perfect example for the military Islamic architectural style which is accentuated by the small openings in the upper part that were dedicated for soldiers with arrows. the door or Bab El Nasr is distinguished from the neighboring Bab El Futuh by its circular facade and its striped domed interior part.
Few steps away from Bab El Nasr, on the left side of the street stands the Meraculous Mosque of El Hakem with its well preserved decorations and great history. On top of the interesting things we knew about the mosque is that it dates back to more than 1000 years in the past and its owner was El Hakem Beamr Allah Ibn El Muiz Le Din Allah El Fatemy. In spite of its great history, the mosque is in a very preserved condition since it was recently restored. From the entrance of the mosque, we found a very vast courtyard with domed arcades supporting the ceiling and a marvelous red colored ablution in the center of the marble baved court. opposite to the entrance aisle, stands the Qibla aisle where the gilded marble Mihrab and beautiful wooden Minber stands as a good example for Islamic decorative style. We spent an hour walking around inside the mosque fascinated with the marvelous decorations of the ceiling, the huge arches, beautiful two Fatimid Minarets and many other things with in the mosque.
From El Hakem, we walked around the small shops of Bab El Nasr where we met a large number of kind and clever artisans and merchants selling marvelous silver works, narghile and many other copper and wooden works.
While walking around the street, we found a graceful place with tall thin Minaret with unique Ottoman style and huge windows with ornate metal screen. Without thinking we entered the building which was Sabil Sulayman Agha El Selahdar. Of special interest in this building are the ornate Ottoman-Turkish style of decoration especially in the main Sabil room with glamorous chandelier and the finely decorated wooden ceiling. Stepping by few steps, we descended to the first floor which consists of a large hall supported with huge columns that was used in the past as a place for storing water for supplying the inhabitants of Cairo with their needs of water.
This was not the end of our journey but unfortunately it was the end of the day. Thus, i advice any ont who plans for visiting Islamic Monuments in Cairo to start from Bab El Nasr and walks till reaching Bab Zuweila in a three-day journey. There is no need for having a tourguide because these touristic places can be easily reached by a taxi and people in these regrions are very helpful and king and there is no fear from walking alone there. Happy journey and wait for the next journey
First sight to attract our attention was the gracious structure known as Cairo walls that streches for hundreds of meters along the way leading to the main portal of Bab El Nasr. It stand as a high stone walls with fascinating geometrically shaped battlements surrounding its top. Interestingly, we were haunted by the beauty of the Fatimid Minaret gracefully standing next to the main entrance of Bab El Nasr. We highly admired the portal for its architectural style that is regarded as a perfect example for the military Islamic architectural style which is accentuated by the small openings in the upper part that were dedicated for soldiers with arrows. the door or Bab El Nasr is distinguished from the neighboring Bab El Futuh by its circular facade and its striped domed interior part.
Few steps away from Bab El Nasr, on the left side of the street stands the Meraculous Mosque of El Hakem with its well preserved decorations and great history. On top of the interesting things we knew about the mosque is that it dates back to more than 1000 years in the past and its owner was El Hakem Beamr Allah Ibn El Muiz Le Din Allah El Fatemy. In spite of its great history, the mosque is in a very preserved condition since it was recently restored. From the entrance of the mosque, we found a very vast courtyard with domed arcades supporting the ceiling and a marvelous red colored ablution in the center of the marble baved court. opposite to the entrance aisle, stands the Qibla aisle where the gilded marble Mihrab and beautiful wooden Minber stands as a good example for Islamic decorative style. We spent an hour walking around inside the mosque fascinated with the marvelous decorations of the ceiling, the huge arches, beautiful two Fatimid Minarets and many other things with in the mosque.
From El Hakem, we walked around the small shops of Bab El Nasr where we met a large number of kind and clever artisans and merchants selling marvelous silver works, narghile and many other copper and wooden works.
While walking around the street, we found a graceful place with tall thin Minaret with unique Ottoman style and huge windows with ornate metal screen. Without thinking we entered the building which was Sabil Sulayman Agha El Selahdar. Of special interest in this building are the ornate Ottoman-Turkish style of decoration especially in the main Sabil room with glamorous chandelier and the finely decorated wooden ceiling. Stepping by few steps, we descended to the first floor which consists of a large hall supported with huge columns that was used in the past as a place for storing water for supplying the inhabitants of Cairo with their needs of water.
This was not the end of our journey but unfortunately it was the end of the day. Thus, i advice any ont who plans for visiting Islamic Monuments in Cairo to start from Bab El Nasr and walks till reaching Bab Zuweila in a three-day journey. There is no need for having a tourguide because these touristic places can be easily reached by a taxi and people in these regrions are very helpful and king and there is no fear from walking alone there. Happy journey and wait for the next journey
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