jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh
The Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad, is a mosque on al-Mu'izz Street, adjacent to Bab Zuwayla, in Islamic Cairo, Egypt. The complex was built between 1415 and 1421, under the rule of the Mamluk sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh, from whom it takes its name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nizar Barrak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Mosque
- Denomination: Sunni
- Description: mosque in Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Mu’ayyid Mosque”, “Al Mu’yyid Mosque”, “Al Muayyad Mosque”, “as-Sulṭān al-Mu’ayyad mosque”, “Masjid al Mu’ayyid”, “Mosque of al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh”, “Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad”, and “Sultan Al-Muayyad Mosque”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bāb Zuwaylah and Al-Azhar Mosque.
Bāb Zuwaylah
Photo: JMCC1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bab Zuwayla or Bab Zuweila is one of three remaining gates in the city walls of historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also known as Bawabat al-Mitwali or Bab al-Mitwali.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Azhar Mosque, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in the historic Islamic core of the city of Cairo, Egypt. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970 CE, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 560 metres northeast of jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abdin and Islamic Cairo.
Islamic Cairo
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.
Bab al-Louq
Suburb
Bab al-Louq is a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior was formerly located there. Bab al-Louq square is the oldest square in Cairo, dating back to the Mamluk era.
jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.04335° or 30° 2′ 36″ northLongitude
31.25751° or 31° 15′ 27″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
8G2H27V5+82OpenStreetMap ID
way 29973662OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=sunni
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“jāmi‘ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجامع المؤيدي”
- Arabic: “المسجد المؤيدي”
- Arabic: “جامع السلطان الملك المؤيد”
- Arabic: “مسجد السلطان المؤيد شيخ”
- Arabic: “مسجد السلطان المؤيَّد شيخ”
- Arabic: “مسجد المؤيد”
- Bengali: “সুলতান আল-মুয়াইয়াদ মসজিদ”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد السلطان المؤيد شيخ”
- French: “ğāmiʿ al-Muʾayyad Šayẖ”
- French: “Mosquée du Sultan Al-Muayyad”
- French: “mosquée Sultan Al-Muayyad”
- French: “El Moaïad” (historical)
- French: “Gama Moyed” (historical)
- French: “mosquée Chaikh” (historical)
- French: “mosquée d’al-Mouayyad” (historical)
- French: “Mosquée du sultan el-Mouayyad” (historical)
- French: “mosquée El-Moyed” (historical)
- German: “Grabkomplex des al-Mu’aiyad Schaich”
- German: “Grabkomplex von al-Mu’ayyad Schaich”
- German: “Grabkomplex von Al-Muayyad Scheykhu”
- German: “Muayyad-Moschee”
- Indonesian: “Masjid Sultan al-Muayyad”
- Italian: “Moayad” (historical)
- Italian: “Moschea del Sultano al-Mu’ayyad”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti Sultan al-Muayyad”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Sultan al-Muayyad”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Sulutani al-Muayyad”
- Korean: “술탄 알-무아야드 모스크”
- Malay: “Masjid Sultan al-Muayyad”
- Spanish: “Mezquita de Sultan Al-Muayyad”
- Ukrainian: “Мечеть Аль-Муайада”
- Ukrainian: “Мечеть Аль-Муаяда”
- Urdu: “مسجد سلطان المؤید”
- Uzbek: “Sulton al-Muayyad masjidi”
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