{
 "id": "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "al-aqmar-mosque",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مسجد الأقمر",
  "en": "al-Aqmar Mosque, Cairo"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجامع الأقمر بالقاهرة، في آخر سوق الشماعين قرب الركن المخلق، وأسكفة بابه عليها كتابة (المقريزي، ص 1063، 1131، 1132). بناؤه وتاريخه لم يُتحققا محلياً.",
  "en": "al-Aqmar Mosque in Cairo, at the end of the candle-makers' market, with inscriptions on its gate threshold (al-Maqrizi, pp. 1063, 1131, 1132). Its founder and date are not checked locally."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "architecture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "mosque",
  "sources": [
   "source/khitat-maqrizi-1998",
   "source/duha-islam"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q287283"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Maqrizi, al-Mawa'iz wa-l-i'tibar (al-Khitat), Madbouli 1998, scan pp. 1063, 1131, 1132; Wikidata candidate for the identifier",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); prose by Claude Haiku 5.5 (showcase-prose lane)",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "wikidata-import-0022, showcase-prose-phase2-egypt-batch9"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; the site, the gate inscriptions and the Mukhalliq corner are read from al-Maqrizi's Khitat (local scan, pp. 1063, 1131, 1132). The founder and the 1125 date in the Wikidata candidate are not confirmed locally and are not used"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجامع الأقمر بالقاهرة، في آخر سوق الشماعين قرب سوق الدجاجين، وكان موضعه قديماً سوق القماحين. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1063}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الباب والكتابة",
     "markdown": "يروي المقريزي أن الأمير يلبغا السالمي أخبره أنه قرأ كلاماً في الأسطر المكتوبة على أسكفة باب الجامع الأقمر. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1132}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الركن المخلق",
     "markdown": "الركن المخلق موضعه تجاه حوض الجامع الأقمر، على يمنة من أراد الدخول إلى المسجد المعروف بمعبد موسى. {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1131}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The al-Aqmar Mosque in Cairo stands at the end of the market of the candle-makers, near the market of the poultry-sellers. Its site was formerly the market of the wheat-dealers {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1063}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The gate and its inscriptions",
     "markdown": "Al-Maqrizi reports that Amir Yalbugha al-Salimi told him he had read words in the lines inscribed on the threshold of the al-Aqmar mosque's gate {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1132}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Mukhalliq corner",
     "markdown": "The Mukhalliq corner lies opposite the basin of the al-Aqmar mosque, on the right of anyone entering the mosque known as Mu'bad Musa {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1131}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "قاہرہ کی جامع الاقمر بازار شماعین کے آخر میں، بازار دجاجین کے قریب ہے، اور اس جگہ پہلے بازار قماحین تھا۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1063}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "دروازہ اور کتبہ",
     "markdown": "مقریزی بیان کرتے ہیں کہ امیر یلبغا السالمی نے انہیں بتایا کہ انہوں نے جامع الاقمر کے دروازے کی دہلیز پر لکھی سطروں میں کچھ عبارت پڑھی۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1132}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رکن مخلق",
     "markdown": "رکن مخلق جامع الاقمر کے حوض کے سامنے ہے، اس شخص کے دائیں جانب جو اس مسجد میں داخل ہونا چاہے جو معبدِ موسیٰ کے نام سے معروف ہے۔ {cite:khitat-maqrizi-1998 p.1131}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "building/al-aqmar-mosque",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-24"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "building/abu-dulaf-mosque-samarra",
  "building/adana-great-mosque",
  "building/ahi-celebi-mosque",
  "building/al-attarine-madrasa",
  "building/al-jami-al-kabir-samarra",
  "building/al-janad-mosque",
  "building/al-mansur-mosque-marrakesh",
  "building/al-muayyad-mosque-cairo"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}