The beauty of Al Moez Street before the quarantine

moez Mon, Apr. 27, 2020
We all know Al-Moez Street for the Fatimid Religion of God, that beautiful, great street that carries a great history and a rich heritage. It is like an open museum of Islamic architecture and antiquities. Al-Moez Street before Corona was crowded with people to the point that the tour from the beginning to the end took about an hour and a half to the intense crowd that It will be on the street, but now our tour took only about half an hour, and to our tour we started from the gate of the conquest and then the ruler mosque by the command of God, which was built in 380 AH during the reign of Al-Aziz, by God the Fatimid, who began building it in the year 379 AH, but he died before its completion, so he completed his son The ruler, by the command of Allah, in 403 Hijri, so the mosque’s name was attributed to him.

After that we went to the Umm Kulthum coffee and then the Sulayman Agha Al Salhdar Mosque, which is one of the very beautiful mosques on Al Moez Street. It was established in the era of Muhammad Ali and it took two years to build from 1253 to 1255 AH and its exact location at the beginning of the Burjwan Lane on Amir Al Jayoush Street.

Then we went to the beautiful archaeological house "Beit al-Sehimi", which has an area of ​​two thousand square meters and consists of two houses. The first was built by Sheikh Bandar Al-Tajjar Abd al-Wahhab al-Tablawy in 1648 AD and this was recorded on a piece of wood in one of Jdranah and the second was built by Sheikh Bandar the merchants Ismail bin Ismail Shalabi in 1797 AD He merged the two houses into one,

After that, we went to the Al-Aqmar Mosque, which was built by Minister Al-Mamoun Al-Butahi, by order of the Caliph. The order is for the rulings of God, Abi Ali Mansour, year 519. Al-Maqrizi says that the mosque was built in the place of one of the monasteries that was called the Well of Greatness, as it is considered one of the most beautiful mosques in Al-Moez Street, then our tour ended in Khan Al-Khalil Street Even the wall of the Hussein Mosque.