Our tour guide will pick you up in the morning at your hotel in Cairo or Giza to start your daily day trips to Cairo. Enter the Salah El Din Citadel and the Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque to begin your Coptic and Islamic Cairo tour. For a long time, Egypt's capital was located here.
The Citadel of Saladin was built by the well-known Muslim leader Salah Al-Din circa 1176 A.D. It is an example of Ottoman architecture in Cairo, having been modeled after the famous Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed in Istanbul.
You will be taken to another historic site nearby to see the Mamluk mosque and Madrasas of Sultan Hassan, the mosque of Ibn Tulun, which is the oldest mosque still standing in Africa, and the Islamic complex in Cairo that historians have dubbed the pyramid of Islamic architecture.
The Sultan Hassan Mosque-Madrassa is a sizable mosque and madrassa that was constructed in Egypt's Old City during the Mamluk Islamic era. When the mosque was first built, it was praised for its remarkable size and avant-garde architectural features. Al-Maqrizi wrote that an-Nasir Hasan, a sultan with a brief and unremarkable history, had ordered the mosque's construction and that it housed various "wonders of construction".
Large mosques and madrassas in the Old City of Cairo, which is known as the Sultan Hassan Mosque-Madrassa, were built during the Mamluk Islamic period in Egypt. The mosque's enormous size and avant-garde architectural features made it special when it was first constructed. According to al-Maqrizi, the mosque was approved by the ephemeral and unimpressive Sultan an-Nasir Hasan, and featured several "wonders of architecture." We will take you back to your hotel so you can rest there.
Meals: Breakfast