It adorns the 100-pound coin and witnesses years of battles

In the video: Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan .. the jewel of Mamluk architecture

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If you are a visitor to Egypt, you must have noticed the coin of the Egyptian 100 pounds, and that beautiful edifice painted on it, which reflects its importance and its high historical and cultural value, as the mosque and school of Sultan Hassan is one of the most important landmarks that the Mamluk era presented to the world in the field of Islamic architecture.

The mosque, school and dome of Sultan Hassan, which was founded in 1363 AD, is one of the most important landmarks that cannot be ignored in the city, which is an integral part of the program to visit the Egyptian capital, and one of its most majestic monuments, which for centuries has been considered a masterpiece of the Mamluk era and its most important treasures, and the best What highlights the beauty of the craftsmanship of the Egyptian man, and his ability to transform stone into endless artistic creations, who took his share of collapse and plunder during the battles and wars between the Mamluks.

An order to establish the mosque and school of Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Hassan bin al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, in the place of an old market called “the horse market”, in addition to a palace that was also ordered to be demolished by Prince Yalbugha al-Yahyawi, so that the construction and reconstruction would continue for three years, and the mosque is currently located in Salahuddin Square And next to it are several archaeological mosques, such as the Al-Rifai Mosque, the Mahmudiyah Mosque, the Qani Bay Al-Ramah Mosque, the Jawhar Al-Lala Mosque, in addition to the Muhammad Ali Mosque, the Nasser Qalawun Mosque in the Citadel of Salah al-Din, and the Mustafa Kamel Museum, but with its size and the beauty of its architecture, it was able to take its place in Top list of the most important historical mosques in Egypt and the region.

Although the reign of Sultan Hassan was not long, and it was full of wars and conflicts on the throne, which was a frequent occurrence during that period, and although he did not witness the completion of the mosque, as he died and did not know his tomb, and he was not buried in the mausoleum that was built Inside the mosque specially for him, he was able to leave behind one of the most beautiful mosques in Egypt, for which a very large budget was spent, which is said to have reached 750 thousand dinars of gold, which seems to have exhausted the Sultan and depleted him. It is said that the king of Egypt was unable to complete a building, because she left building this mosque from the large amount spent on it.

The building was designed in a polygonal shape, and it has four eastern, western, tribal, and marine destinations with two minarets, and the edges of the windows of its huge dome are decorated with muqarnas, various decorations, and Kufic inscriptions, while the entrance to the mosque is one of the most prominent things that beautify the building, which is about 38 meters high, and is characterized by its magnitude and creativity in Hand-crafted works of carvings and engraved decorations.

The mosque is characterized by a large colored marble courtyard, in the middle of which is a fountain topped by a dome carried on eight columns. Around the courtyard are four iwans, the largest of which is the qibla iwan.

• 48 meters high, the height of the dome's height.

• 21 meters the length of each side of the square dome.

• 898 meters, the area of ​​the mosque's largest school, which is the Hanafi school.

• The complex consists of a mosque and a school divided into the four schools of thought, in addition to the sciences of interpretation of the Qur’an, the hadith of the Prophet, and the seven readings, in addition to two libraries to teach orphans the Qur’an and teach them calligraphy.

• It was supposed to build four minarets for the mosque. However, construction stopped after the collapse of the third lighthouse on 300 commoners and orphans students of memorizing the Qur’an.

• It includes a small school for children to teach the Noble Qur’an, and it also holds many cultural seminars and seminars.

• 7906 square meters is the total area of ​​the building