List of mosques in Cairo explained

Cairo holds one of the greatest concentrations of historical monuments of Islamic architecture in the world, and includes mosques and Islamic religious complexes from diverse historical periods. Many buildings were primarily designated as madrasas, khanqahs or even mausoleums rather than mosques, but have nonetheless served as places of worship or prayer at some time or another, if not today.

Rashidunids

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Mosque of Amr ibn al-As642The oldest mosque in Africa. (Although the building has been rebuilt and modified many times after its foundation.)

Abbasids

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Mosque of Ibn Tulun884The oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area

Fatimids

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Al-Azhar Mosque969National mosque
Al-Hakim Mosque1013
Lulua Mosque1015
Juyushi Mosque1085
Al-Hussein Mosque1154
Aqmar Mosque1125
Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya1133
Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque1160

Mamluks

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Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars1269
Qalawun Mosque1284-1285
Madrasa of Al-Nasir Muhammad1303
Khanqah of Baybars (II) al-Jashankir1310
Madrasa of Amir Sunqur Sa'di1321
Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque1334
Mosque of Amir al-Maridani1339
Aqsunqur Mosque1347
Shaykhu Mosque1349
Mosque of Amir al-Sayf Sarghatmish1356
Mosque of Sultan Hassan1362
Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban1368-69
Mosque of Sultan Barquq1386
Mosque of Mahmud al-Kurdi1395
Mosque of Jamal al-Din al-Ustadar1407
Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq1411
Mosque of Qanibay al-Muhammadi1413
Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad1420
Mosque-Madrasa of al-Ashraf Barsbay1424
Khanqah-Mausoleum of al-Ashraf Barsbay1432
Mosque of Taghribardi1440
Mosque-Mausoleum complex of al-Ashraf Qaytbay1472
Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi Mosque1481
Khayrbak Mosque1502
Mosque of Qani-Bay1503
Al-Ghuri Mosque1503

Ottomans and Alawiyya Dynasty

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Demerdash Mosque1523
Sulayman Pasha Mosque1528
Mosque of Mahmud Pasha (al-Mahmudiyya)1567
Sinan Pasha Mosque1571
Al-Burdayni Mosque1629
Mosque of Abu Dahab1774
Mosque of Muhammad Ali1830
Mosque-Sabil of Sulayman Agha al-Silahdar1839
Sayyidah Zainab Mosque1887 (present building)
Sayeda Aisha Mosque1895 (present building)
Al-Sayeda Nafeesah Mosque1897 (present building)
Al-Rifa'i Mosque1911

Modern

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Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque
Al-Fath Mosque

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