Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque is one of the most important mosques in Egypt and the largest in the Islamic world. It was built in 642 AD in the city of Fustat. Through our interesting talk about the mosque and everything it contains, you will know all the information:
Who is the leader Amr ibn al-Aas ?
The leader Amr ibn al-Aas was born in 575. Amr is distinguished by being black in color and short in stature. He was one of the most important military leaders throughout Islamic history. And he conquered Egypt in the year 640 AD, and he was a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad, and made him one of his companions. He is the principal founder of the ancient capital, Fustat. Amr is from the people of Quraysh. After that, he embraced Islam and took care of the matters of the Islamic religion.
Why did Amr ibn al-Aas choose this particular place to build the mosque?
After his occupation of the city of Alexandria “the capital of Egypt in the Greco-Roman era”, he thought of building a new city to be the capital of Egypt instead of Alexandria. Then he set up a large tent in which a white dove was placed in front of Fustat, so they considered it sacred and settled there. After that, Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque was built in the city of Fustat.
Collector’s date
It is the first building erected in Al-Fustat and Al-Askar and the last building in them. It was called Al-Nasr Mosque and the Crown of Mosques. It was built by Amr ibn al-Aas after he completed the conquest of Alexandria in the year (21 AH / 642 AD).
Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque Design
Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque, which is famous for his name. At the time of its construction, Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque was known as the Crown of Mosques. Then it was known as the old mosque for the passage of time. It is located north of the Babylon Citadel.
The mosque was very simple, measuring 50 by 30 cubits. Its roof was made of palm fronds, its pillars were made of palm trees, and it did not have a wide nave, but people lined up to pray in this narrow courtyard because the mosque was narrow with them. ).
The mosque was surrounded on all four sides by a seven-armed road.
And it remained in this state until the year 53 AH / 672 AD, when the expansions continued, and the area of Maslamah ibn Makhlid al-Ansari, the governor of Egypt at the hands of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, was increased, and he built four minarets in it. Architectural expansions continued until it reached an area of about 120 x 10 meters. The mosque was burned when the city of Fustat burned in 564 AH while it was exposed to the Crusaders, then Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi reconstructed and restored it in 568 AH, four years after this incident.
The remains of the archaeological mosque!
It has been proven from an archaeological and historical point of view that only a few of the old mosque’s architecture and decorations remain, and the oldest archaeological elements found in it date back to the era of Abdullah bin Taher.
The Department of Conservation of Arab Antiquities was able to redraw the facades of the mosque based on the description of Ibn al-Daqmaq on the one hand, and a summary of the manifestations of some of the remaining monuments from the facades of the mosque. Old mosque.
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