After years of renovation work, Egypt witnessed the reopening of the Al-Hakim Mosque, one of the most prominent historical mosques, which is located in Old Cairo, and is the second largest mosque in Cairo after the Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque.
The project to renovate the historic mosque began in 2017 with a budget of 85 million Egyptian pounds (about $2.8 million), and it reopened on Monday, February 27.
According to the Reuters news agency, the renovation was carried out in cooperation between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Shiite Bohra sect, and also included maintenance work to ward off dangers and protect the walls of the mosque from the influence of moisture and salts, according to Mustafa Al-Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The process of building the historic mosque began in the year 380 AH (990 AD) at the hands of Al-Aziz Billah, the fifth caliph in the Fatimid state, then his son Al-Hakim resumed building it in the year 393 AH (1003 AD) for 10 years, and it was opened in the year 403 AH (1012). AD).