Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun

The Mosque of Ibn Tulun is a in , . Built between 876 and 879 CE by its namesake, Ahmad ibn Tulun, it is the oldest well-preserved mosque in Egypt.
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  • Mosque
  • …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (120 feet)
  • Description: mosque in Cairo, Egypt
  • Also known as
    “Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn”
    “Ahmad ibn Tūlūn”
    “Aḩmad Ibn Ţūlūn Mosque”
    “Ahmed ebn Teyloun”
    “Ibn Ṭūlūn”
    “Ibn Tulun Mosque”
    “Masjid Aḩmad ibn Ţūlūn”
    “Mosque of Ibn Tulun”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gayer-Anderson Museum and Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan.
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The is an art museum located in Cairo, Egypt. is situated 110 metres east of Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun.
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The Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan is a monumental… is situated 750 metres northeast of Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun.
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The Citadel of Cairo or Citadel of Saladin is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in , Egypt. is situated 1¼ km east of Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sayyidah Zainab District and Abdin.
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Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of , .
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is a suburb.
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is a well-planned and leafy district…

Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun

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Latitude
30.02874° or 30° 1′ 44″ north
Longitude
31.24963° or 31° 14′ 59″ east
Open location code
8G2H26HX+FV
Geo­Names ID
7922805
Wiki­data ID
Q915413

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Western Panjabi—“Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Meuseujid Ibnu Tulun”
  • Albanian: “Xhamia e Ibn Tulunit”
  • Arabic: “الجامع الطولوني”
  • Arabic: “المسجد الطولوني”
  • Arabic: “جامع أحمد بن طولون”
  • Arabic: “جامع إبن طولون”
  • Arabic: “جامع بن طولون”
  • Arabic: “مسجد ابن طولون”
  • Arabic: “مسجد احمد بن طولون”
  • Azerbaijani: “İbn Tolun məscidi”
  • Azerbaijani: “İbn Tulun məscidi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Məscidu İbn Tolun”
  • Basque: “Ibn Tulun meskita”
  • Bengali: “ইবনে তুলুন মসজিদ”
  • Bosnian: “Ibn Tulunova džamija”
  • Catalan: “Mesquita d’Ibn Tulun”
  • Chinese: “伊本·图伦清真寺”
  • Chinese: “伊本·圖倫清真寺”
  • Chinese: “艾哈迈德·伊本·图伦清真寺”
  • Dutch: “Ibn Toeloen moskee”
  • Dutch: “Moskee van Ibn Toeloen”
  • Dutch: “Moskee van Ibn Tulun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد ابن طولون”
  • Esperanto: “Moskeo de Ibn Tulun”
  • Finnish: “Ibn Tulunin moskeija”
  • French: “Ibn Ṭūlūn”
  • French: “Mosquée Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn”
  • French: “mosquée d’Ahmad ibn Touloun”
  • French: “mosquée d’Ahmed ibn Touloun”
  • French: “mosquée d’Ibn Touloun”
  • French: “Mosquée Ibn Touloun”
  • French: “mosquée Ibn Tulun”
  • French: “Touloun”
  • French: “Ahmed ebn Touloun” (historical)
  • French: “Gâmaʼ Teyloun” (historical)
  • French: “Ibn Teyloun” (historical)
  • French: “Teyloun” (historical)
  • German: “Ibn-Tulun-Moschee”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ibn Tulun Mosque”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mosque of Ibn Tulun”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Ibn Tulun”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד אבן טולון”
  • Hindi: “इब्न तूलून मस्जिद”
  • Hungarian: “Ibn Túlún-mecset”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Ibnu Tulun”
  • Italian: “Moschea di Ahmad ibn Tulun”
  • Italian: “moschea El Tulun”
  • Japanese: “イブン＝トゥールーン・モスク”
  • Kazakh: “Ахмед ибн-Тулун мешіті”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Ibn Tulun”
  • Korean: “이븐 툴룬의 모스크”
  • Lithuanian: “Ibn Tuluno mečetė”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Ибн Тулун”
  • Madurese: “Masjid Ibnu Tulun”
  • Malay: “Masjid Ibn Tulun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ibn Tulun-moskeen”
  • Norwegian: “Ibn Tulun-moskeen”
  • Persian: “مسجد ابن طولون”
  • Polish: “Meczet Ahmada Ibn Tuluna”
  • Romanian: “Moscheea lui Ibn Tulun”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Ибн Тулун”
  • Russian: “Мечеть ибн-Тулуна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džamija Ibn Tuluna”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ibn Tulunova džamija”
  • Sindhi: “جامع ابن طولون”
  • Sindhi: “مسجد ابن طولون”
  • Slovenian: “Mošeja Ibn Tulun”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de Ahmad Ibn Tulun”
  • Spanish: “Mezquita de Ibn Tulun”
  • Swedish: “Ibn Tulun moskén”
  • Turkish: “Tolunoğlu Camii”
  • Turkish: “Tolunoğulları Camii”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть Ібн Тулуна”
  • Urdu: “مسجد ابن طولون”
  • Uzbek: “Ibn Tulun Masjidi”
  • Western Mari: “Ибн Тулун мечеть”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسجد ابن طولون”

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