Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque
The Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars is a mosque built in Cairo, Egypt by the Mamluk Sultan al-Zahir Baybars al-Bunduqdari through his Vizier Bahaa el-Din bin Hanna and Sanjar al-Shuja‘i.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mosque
- Description: mosque in Egypt
- Also known as: “Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sakakini Palace and Bab Al-Nasr.
Sakakini Palace
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Habib Pasha El Sakakini Palace is a palace located in the El Sakkakini district of Cairo, Egypt. Built in 1897 by Habib Sakakini, it is considered as one of Egypt's most important palaces due to its Rococo-style architecture. Sakakini Palace is situated 470 metres northeast of Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque.
Bab Al-Nasr
City gate
Photo: R Prazeres, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bab al-Nasr, is one of three remaining gates in the historic city wall of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The gate's construction is dated to 1087 and was ordered by Badr al-Jamali, a Fatimid vizier. Bab Al-Nasr is situated 1 km south of Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque.
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 Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. 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". Al-Azhar Mosque is situated 2 km south of Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Al Daher and Islamic Cairo.
Al Daher
Neighborhood
Al-Daher is a district in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. 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 Sakakini and Abbassia.
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.
Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Cairo Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.06239° or 30° 3′ 45″ northLongitude
31.26346° or 31° 15′ 49″ eastOpen location code
8G2H3767+X9OpenStreetMap ID
way 28848324OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q1535255
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sultan Alzahir Bebars Mosque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جامع السلطان الظاهر بيبرس”
- Arabic: “جامع الظاهر بيبرس”
- Arabic: “مسجد الظاهر بيبرس”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جامع الظاهر بيبرس”
- French: “Grande mosquée al-Sultan al-Zahir Baybars”
- French: “Grande Mosquée al-Sultan al-Zahir Baybars”
- French: “Mosquée al-Zahir Baybars”
- French: “Mosquée al-Zahur Baubars”
- German: “Sultan-az-Zahir-Baibars-Moschee”
- Japanese: “ザーヒル・バイバルス・モスク”
- Kazakh: “Бейбарыс сұлтан мешіті”
- Persian: “مسجد ظاهر بیبرس”
- Turkish: “Baybars Camii”
- Urdu: “مسجد الظاہر بیبرس”
- Uzbek: “Al-Zohir Baybars masjidi”
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