Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan

مسجد ومدرسة السلطان حسن

Cairo's four-school madrasa (1363) with the tallest Mamluk minaret — chroniclers called it 'the pyramid of Islamic architecture'.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Egypt & Nile
Identifiers
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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موجز

مسجد ومدرسة في القاهرة بناه السلطان حسن الناصر سنة 1363م؛ أربع مدارس للمذاهب الأربعة حول صحن مكشوف، وأعلى مئذنة مملوكية في المدينة. 1

الأثر

سمّاه الرحّالة «هرم العمارة الإسلامية» لجسامته؛ ما زال أكبر جامع مملوكي قائم. 1

People and things also explored

Great Mosque of Samarra· Grand Bazaar of Isfahan· Bazaar of Tabriz· Bibi-Khanym Mosque· Faisal Mosque· Grand Bazaar, Istanbul· Hassan II Mosque· Khan el-Khalili

Sources

  1. Wikidata
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islam.museum contributors. “Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/masjid-sultan-hasan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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