Alabaster Mosque (Mohammad Ali Mosque), Cairo

When I was in Egypt I stayed in Sharm and went over to Cairo for the day. Plane journey was quick and very easy. We went on a busy tour through Cairo and one of the stops was the Albaster Mosque. The Albaster Mosque was beautiful on the inside but we had to cover all of our skin apart from on our faces. As the weather was very warm I did not want to wear a great amount of attire. And for this reason to enter the mosque I was covered in a sheet that had been worn by many other people, these people who were very hot and sweaty like me. This caused a lot of discomfort to me. Other people that ... more

The Alabaster Mosque or Mohamed Ali Mosque is one of the famous mosques in Egypt it's located inside the Citadel of Salahdin which built by Alnaser Salah AlDin to protect and defend Egypt against the Crossers Attacks in the middle ages, the Mosque is looking very beautiful inside and well decorated, this mosque has been built by Mohamed Ali, an Albanian Solider who was came to Egypt with the Ottoman Army, and step by step he became the ruler of Egypt under the control of Ottoman Empire, but After a while he make Egypt on of the strongest countries in the area, and built up a modern country and ... more