North Africa
Egypt
Cairo Governorate

Hussein Mosque

The al-Hussein Mosque or al-Husayn Mosque, also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, is a and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Shia
  • Description: mosque in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Al-Hussain Mosque”, “Al-Hussein Mosque”, and “حسين”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Al-Azhar Mosque and Madrasa and Mausoleum of Sultan Al-Salih Nagm Al-Din Ayyub.

Mosque
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, known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a in , Egypt in the . Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets". is situated 240 metres south of Hussein Mosque.

Mosque
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The Salihiyya Madrasa, also called the Madrasa and Mausoleum of as-Salih Najm ad-Din Ayyub is a historic madrasa and mausoleum complex in , . is situated 220 metres northwest of Hussein Mosque.

Historic building
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The Wikala of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri is a caravanserai in . It was built in 1504–1505 and is considered today one of the most impressive and best-preserved examples of this type of building in Cairo. is situated 330 metres southwest of Hussein Mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Islamic Cairo and Abdin.

Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the name commonly given to the core of medieval , a part of the city remarkably different from the modern Downtown district and the suburbs to the west.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the Western Area of , . According to the district map, and the census, it is subdivided into the qisms of al-Wayli and el-Daher, or al-Zahir. Some of their better known quarters are and .

Hussein Mosque

Latitude
30.04784° or 30° 2′ 52″ north
Longitude
31.26321° or 31° 15′ 48″ east
Open location code
8G2H27X7+47
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24748791
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­shia
Wiki­data ID
Q2279688
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hussein Mosque” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المشهد الحسيني بالقاهرة”
  • Arabic: “جامع الحسين بالقاهرة”
  • Arabic: “جامع الحسين في القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “مسجد الإمام الحسين بالقاهرة”
  • Arabic: “مسجد الإمام الحسين بالقاهره”
  • Arabic: “مسجد الإمام الحسين”
  • Arabic: “مسجد الحسين في القاهرة”
  • Arabic: “مسجد الحسين”
  • Arabic: “مشهد الحسين بن علي بالقاهرة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Hüseyn məscidi”
  • Bengali: “আল-হুসেইন মসজিদ”
  • Chinese: “伊玛目侯赛因清真寺”
  • Czech: “Husajnova mešita”
  • Dutch: “Al-Hussein Mosque”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامع الحسين”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامع سيدنا الحسين”
  • German: “Imam-Husain-Moschee”
  • German: “Sayyidna-al-Husain-Moschee”
  • Hausa: “Masallacin Hussaini”
  • Hebrew: “מסגד אל-חוסיין”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Al-Husain”
  • Italian: “moschea di al-Husayn”
  • Italian: “Moschea di al-Husayn”
  • Japanese: “マスジド・イマーム・フサイン”
  • Kazakh: “Әл-Хусейн мешіті”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Umusigiti wa Al-Hussein”
  • Korean: “후세인 모스크”
  • Macedonian: “Џамија Ал-Хусеин”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Al-Hussein-moskeen”
  • Norwegian: “Al-Hussein-moskeen”
  • Persian: “مسجد امام حسین (قاهره)”
  • Persian: “مسجد امام حسین”
  • Russian: “Мечеть аль-Хусейна”
  • Russian: “Мечеть Аль-Хуссейн”
  • Saraiki: “مسجد الحسین”
  • Swedish: “Al Hussein-moskén”
  • Tamil: “ஹுசைன் பள்ளிவாசல், கெய்ரோ”
  • Turkish: “İmam Hüseyin Camii”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть аль-Хусейна”
  • Urdu: “مسجد الحسین”
  • Urdu: “مسجد حسین”
  • Western Mari: “Аль-Хусейн мечеть”
  • Western Mari: “Имам Хусейн мечеть”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسجد الحسین”

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