Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indonesian student Nuni Nuraini Ahyani sits in the courtyard of Al-Hussein Mosque in old Islamic Cairo Indonesian student Nuni ...

Rising above the Citadel in Islamic Cairo, the Mohamed Ali Mosque remains the most recognizable of Cairo's mosques, with domes and minarets that have dominated the skyline since the mid-19th century.

Constructed in 879, Cairo's oldest surviving mosque in its original form was built to accommodate the Tulunid Dynasty founder, Ahmad Ibn Tulun, and his entire army during Friday prayers. His mosque ...

CAIRO — Developers unveiled the restoration of a 650-year-old mosque in Cairo’s old city, part of an effort to revitalize the impoverished district and boost tourism to the country’s treasure trove of ...

The historical development of Cairo 20-923/642-1517: an overview / Ayman Fuad Sayyid -- The urban character of al-Darb al-Ahmar / Nasser Rabbat -- A Traveller's account: Nasir-i Khusraw in ...

Bernard O’Kane, a professor of Islamic art and architecture at American University in Cairo, has a message and a nudge for travelers standing outside a mosque, wondering whether they should enter: Go ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a copper ornament stolen from the fifteenth-century Al-Kady Abdel-Baset mosque in 2014 has been recovered and returned to the mosque’s main door. Police tracked ...