in
undefined, Egypt
Category:
Attraction
0 views 
0 shares 
0 comments
set bookmark!
Created/changed by:
System
Address details
32 Bab El-Wazir, El-Darb El-Ahmar, El-Darb El-Ahmar, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Print route »
Phone & WWW
Business hours
Info
The Aqsunqur Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque or the Mosque of Ibrahim Agha) is located in Cairo, Egypt and is one of several "blue mosques" in the world. It is situated in the Tabbana Quarter in Islamic Cairo, between Bab Zuweila and the Citadel of Saladin (Cairo Citadel.) The Aqsunqur Mosque also serves as a funerary complex, containing the mausoleums of its founder Shams ad-Din Aqsunqur, his sons, a number of children of the Bahri Mamluk sultan an-Nasir Muhammad and that of its principal restorer, Ibrahim Agha al-Mustahfizan.
