[HIGHLIGHTS] After a 225-year closure. The first Friday prayer at Al-Zahir Baybars Mosque in Cairo

Egyptian state television and private channels broadcast Friday prayers at the mosque. The mosque was founded by the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars al-Bandaqdari between 1266 and 1268 AD.

It is the third largest archaeological mosque in Egypt, after the Ahmed Ibn Tulun and Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah, with an area of approximately 3 acres, or about 12,<> square meters.Consideration of its restoration began in coordination between the Egyptian state and the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2007, then stopped work in 2011, and returned in 2018.