Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan

This guide to the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan in Cairo begins with a Mamluk commander turning on the young sultan who trusted him in 1361, cutting short a reign that had already survived two depositions. You'll hear about the obsession that drove Hassan's final building project, the plague-era construction that strained the treasury, and an accident mid-build that changed the mosque's design. Enter through the deliberately dark, narrow passage before it opens onto the sunlit courtyard ahead.