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Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas | Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque

Informations about Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas

  • 05 16, 2023

First mosque and religious school

The original structure of this mosque was built on the site where Amr ibn al-Aas pitched his tent, and was built from palm trunks and leaves, then expanded to its current size in 827 AD.

Amr ibn al-As Mosque: Located east of the Nile, the mosque occupies a section measuring 50 cubits by 30 cubits. It was built in the city of Fustat during the Muslim era following the conquest of Egypt. It was also known as the Old Mosque, the Mosque of the Conquest, or the Mother of All Mosques. Among many other subsequent additions, the mosque included four minarets and six doorways. 

The Amr ibn al-As Mosque was constructed in 568 AH, and when Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi conquered Egypt in the twelfth century, he ordered its reconstruction, including the replacement of the large mihrab and the installation of engraved marble tiles.

Initially, what is now known as the Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque occupied a simple construction measuring 45 meters long and 27 meters wide. Its wall construction was made of unplastered bricks, palm tree trunks were used for the columns, the ranging trunks served as the roofs with the palm trees having several openings acting as doors to the building.

The Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque’s architectural design was similar to that of the Prophet’s Mosque where the mosque was built without leaving out any details in its design seeking to promote the Islamic ethos. In this regard, emphasis was not placed on building structures even though justice appreciated them, and so a shade was constructed for the comfort of the believers from the sun, rain, and other elements.

The Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque has many important things that were performed in the mosque, including the following:

  • Performing the five religious duties.
  • Holding the Judicial Council meeting in the mosque.
  • Holding story councils.
  • Holding science circles, which reached 110 science circles in the fourth century AH (tenth century AD), and special circles were dedicated to women, and these councils were led by the preacher of her time, Umm al-Khair al-Hijaziya.
  • All these things made the Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque the oldest university in Egypt, almost 600 years before Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, which followed it
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The Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas is the first mosque built in Egypt and one of the earliest mosques in the entire Islamic world. It was constructed in 642 AD by the Arab general Amr Ibn Al-Aas, following the Muslim conquest of Egypt. The mosque holds great historical value as it represents the spread of Islam in the region.

Мечеть 'Амра ибн аль-'Аса - очень старая мечеть в Египте и Африке. Она была построена человеком по имени генерал Амр ибн аль-Ас, который был близким другом пророка Мухаммада. Он завоевал Египет и основал там первый исламский город Фустат, который сейчас является частью Каира.

The Museum of Islamic Art was established in 1881 by Khedive Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt at the time. It was initially housed in the Al-Hakim Mosque but was later moved to its current location in the Bab Al-Khalq area of Cairo.

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