Mohammed Bey Abu Al-Zahab Group

This facade is located o Al-Azhar Street, overlookig the Al-Imam Muhammad Abdo Street towards the market of Al-Tablita. It was established by Price Muhammad Bek Abu Al-Dahab, the State Treasury Officer i the days of Price Ali Bak Al-Kabeer betwee 1187- He was ickamed “Abu al-Zahab” whe he was ickamed the “Bekaia” ad gold was scattered amog the poor. Whe he died i a battle i the Levat i 1189 AH / 1775 AD he was buried i his mosque i Al-Azhar. Ottoma era i Cairo. The mosque is located o several groud floor shops. It is desiged i the style of the Ottoma Mosques i Turkey. It is a prayer house surrouded by three corridors ad topped by a large dome. The mosque cotais a lighthouse which is the oly example i the religious architecture i Cairo. I additio, the group icludes a burial groud for the Emir, a waterig statio for passers-by, a water tak for waterig livestock, ad a fishig tet for the Sufis ad Darwish, cosistig of several residetial floors curretly occupied by the ispectio headquarters of the Azhar ad Ghuri areas. The collectio reflects distictive decorative elemets of Ottoma art. These are colored marble pieces i the floors, the iche of the mihrab i the mosque, the gilded woode gilded upper woode ribbos, the ivory ad eboy woode platform, the dome of the burial dome with its colorful vegetal ad geometric decoratios, the brass kobs ad the ceramic tiles.