Before You Die: Ibn Tulun Mosque by Philip Marsden
Egypt: Visit Ibn Tulun mosque, Cairo. If you go to Cairo only for the Pyramids you will miss what is probably the greatest range of Islamic sacred architecture anywhere on earth. Whereas the pyramids are dead monuments, the city's mosques are still used for worship. Of these, the most impressive is the ninth century mosque of Ibn Tulun, whose vast courtyard was designed to fit the entire army of Ibn Tulun inside it for prayers. Philip Marsden
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