Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As (Cairo)

 mosque, 7th century constructions

The Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque Fustat district of Ancient Egypt, the first mosque built in Egypt after that of God Almighty on the Amr Bin Al-Aas commander of the Arab armies of Egypt opened the year 20 AH, which corresponds to 641 calendar years.

The mosque was built year 21 Hjeria corresponds to 641 AD calendar it was first established center of government and the nucleus of an invitation to the Islamic religion in Egypt, and then built around the city of Fustat, which is the first Islamic capitals of Egypt, has been the site chosen by Amr ibn Al-Aas mosque to build this property of a person named "Qaysbh "It was at that time overlooking the Nile was also oversees Fort Babylon, which is located next to him, and because this is the first mosque built mosques in Egypt has known several names including Whole old crown and mosques.

Architectural planning of a mosque:

Planning was the architect of the original mosque consists of long rectangular area of fifty arm and supply thirty arm, has been the Whole of the four directions by introducing the seven wings, and has been furnished ground Whole demerits, either tiled roof of palm fronds, which was mounted on pellets of palm trunks tiled mud , As he did not have a dish or altar hollow in the minaret was the platform walls were built of bricks Foreign Whole milk was free of decoration and had six doors in the mosque walls, except a wall kiss it was not by any openings. The Whole rise from the inside it Likely that he was about three meters such as Nabawi mosque, despite the involvement of eighty Sahabia in identifying him only pray that it came a little perverted to the east.

The Bani Amr Bin Al-Aas himself Dara east Whole House Amr called the Great, was a chemical and Dara were from the north to his son Abdullah was called House Amr smaller, and then built to house the third Sahabi Galilee Zubayr bin Floater.
It's Amr Bin Al-Aas Mosque several increases and additions during the Islamic eras and different times until the present, the first of these changes and renovations in the Umayyad Mosque where Zeid in Flat Whole Year 53 e / 672 m, and the work has given dish to increase the number of worshippers.
As the "Muslim bin mukhallad" Year 53 e / 672 - 673 m that could work forward from the northern and decorated roof workshop solely for the first time instead of gravel, and four silos built him over the four pillars similar to the towers which were at the corners Roman temple in Damascus at that time , And was Almeznon LINERS STEP UP degree from outside the mosque for prayer, and these silos so authorized the first model in Egypt.

Then followed after renovations Mosque was the most important work of Abdul Aziz bin Marwan, who 79 years Crown Egypt e / 698 m where the expansion of the Whole of the West Side, was established by the vast Muslim from the northern side was unable to rise from the eastern part of a narrow road, and in 93 e / 710 m by the magistrate "Kara Ben partner" demolished the mosque and the work of four corridors of the mosque largest gallery kiss, also worked for the mosque antiseptic in its own destruction, as the work of the mosque in 94 e altar and the development of the hollow wooden platform in front of the mihrab as a restricted limited Maaouya such as bin Abi Sufyan Umayyad Mosque in Damascus , In the Abbasid Zayd mosque in the area several times been the largest and most significant increase viceroy "Abdullah Ibn Taher," the year of 212 e / 827 m where the planning of the Whole almost square, but the largest apartment Mosque was carried out by your Murad in 1212 e / in 1792, where changed Whole Building completely.

The current planning for the mosque, it consists of a prominent main entrance is located on the western side of the mosque, which consists of a large dish surrounded by open corridors with four simple wooden ceilings, the largest of these corridors is the vestibule kiss and consists of twenty-one Abakh helicopter to kiss the wall, each consisting of Abakh Six decades pointed based on the pillars of marble, and has done vestibule kiss altar hollow proximity of each wooden platform, and a wall kiss Two Trdjaan era Murad Bek.
There is also the northeastern corner of the gallery kiss dome is said to be dating back to Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Al-Aas, either dish it Through the Dome mosque built on eight columns of marble table format, and windows were decorated with textured Whole old fresco still exists residues southern wall, while contracts Whole in the vestibule before the end based on the marble columns of Tejan brings different from the old groves, and this culminates facades mosque from the outside supervision of the highest pyramid gear and the minaret of a mosque dating back to the era of Murad your words a minaret of a simple cycle consisting of one of a conical summit.