Mosque of Muhammad Ali
Alabaster-clad Ottoman mosque atop a citadel, with twin soaring minarets and a French gift clock tower.
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This guide to the Mosque of Muhammad Ali atop Cairo's citadel opens on March 1, 1811, when Egypt's new ruler invited nearly five hundred Mamluk lords through the citadel's narrow gate to celebrate his son's military campaign. It traces what Muhammad Ali built on that same ground afterward, a mosque officially dedicated to his son Tusun, its twin minarets and pale stone earning it the nickname the Alabaster Mosque, and a French clock tower traded for an obelisk still standing in Paris. Listen for the story behind the copper clock in the courtyard.
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