North Africa
Egypt
Cairo Governorate

funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay

The funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay is an architectural complex built by the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay in 's Northern Cemetery. It was built between 1470 and 1474.
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  • Type: Mosque
  • Denomination: Sunni
  • Description: place of prayer for Muslims in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaytbay”, “Funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay”, “Madrasa al-Sultan Qaitbay”, “Mosque and mausoleum of Qaytbay”, “Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Qaytbay”, and “Sultan Qaytbay Complex”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Al-Azhar Mosque and Hussein Mosque.

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 1¼ km west of funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay.

Mosque
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
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. is situated 1¼ km west of funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay.

Park
Photo: Yasser Nazmi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in , . Among several honors, this park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces.

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, which is situated 2½ km west of funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay.

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 . is situated 3 km northwest of funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay.

funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay

Latitude
30.04397° or 30° 2′ 38″ north
Longitude
31.27492° or 31° 16′ 30″ east
Open location code
8G2H27VF+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 84835836
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­sunni
Wiki­data ID
Q12242839
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مجمع قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مجموعة الأشرف قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مجموعة السلطان الأشرف قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مجموعة السلطان قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مجموعة السلطان قيتباي”
  • Arabic: “مجموعة قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مدرسة قايتباى (قرافة المماليك)”
  • Arabic: “مدرسة قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مدرسة قيتباي (قرافة المماليك)”
  • Arabic: “مسجد قايتباى”
  • Arabic: “مسجد قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مسجد قيتباي”
  • Arabic: “مسجد وتربة قايتباي”
  • Arabic: “مسجد ومدرسة قايتباي”
  • Bengali: “সুলতান কাইতবের সমাধি কমপ্লেক্স”
  • Catalan: “Complex d’al-Àixraf Qayt-bay”
  • Catalan: “mesquita i mausoleu de Qayt-bay”
  • Cebuano: “Mosque and mausoleum of Qaytbay”
  • Cebuano: “Rab‘ of Qaytbay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسجد قايتباى”
  • French: “complexe du Sultan Qaytbay”
  • French: “rabʿ Qāytbāy”
  • German: “Grabmoschee von Sultan Kait-Bay”
  • German: “Komplex des Sultans Kait-Bay”
  • German: “Komplex des Sultans Qaitbay”
  • German: “Moschee und Mausoleum des Qaitbay”
  • German: “Moschee und Turba des Qaitbay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Madrasa al-Sultan Qaitbay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mosque den mausoleum for Qaytbay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Qaytbay”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaytbay ein complex”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sultan Qaytbay Complex”
  • Greek: “Σύγκρότημα Σουλτάνου Καΐτμπεη”
  • Hausa: “Hadaddun Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaytbay”
  • Hausa: “Hadaddun Sultan Qaytbay”
  • Hausa: “Masallaci da mausoleum na Qaytbay”
  • Hausa: “Masallaci-Madrassa na Sultan Qaytbay”
  • Indonesian: “Masjid Qait Bey”
  • Spanish: “Complexe del Sultan Qaytbay”
  • Swedish: “Mosque and mausoleum of Qaytbay”
  • Swedish: “Rab‘ of Qaytbay”
  • Swedish: “Sultan Qaitbays gravmoské”
  • Tatar: “Солтан Кайт-бай комплексы”
  • Turkish: “Kayıtbay Külliyesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Комплекс Султана Аль-Ашрафа Кайтбая”
  • Ukrainian: “Комплекс Султана Кайтбая”
  • Ukrainian: “Медресе аль-Султан Кайтбай”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть і мавзолей Кайтбая”
  • Ukrainian: “Мечеть-медресе Султана Кайтбая”
  • Ukrainian: “Похоронний комплекс Султана Кайтбая”
  • Urdu: “مجموعہ سلطان قایتبائی”

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