Sultan Al Ghouri Group

This famous architectural group is located o Al-Moez Street, kow as Al-Gouriya. It was established by Sulta Al-Ghouri, oe of the sultas of the Mamluk State of Circassia, from 909 to 910 AH / 1504-1505 AD. The group icludes a prayer mosque ad a educatioal school for the teachig of jurisprudece ad Hadith. O the opposite side of Al-Mu’izz Street is a burial dome, a gatha for the Sufis, a water-drikig foutai, a Qura memorizatio book, a seat ad a residetial house. Crowed with four peaks i the Islamic architecture i Cairo. The two parts have bee coected to a woode shed for commercial use. The group has a impressive display of Islamic art i the Mamluk era. This is reflected i the lower marble, the school lios, the carved stoe ad marble motifs with the exterior facades, the woode ceiligs with the vegetal orametatio, the colorful ad gilded textures, the woode pulpit ad the chair with two ivory ad eboy restaurats. The dome has ow bee reused as a cultural palace, a ceter for artistic creativity ad a traiig room for the staff of the Miistry of Atiquities. Al Ghouri Tradig Agecy is located i Al-Tablita Street i Al-Azhar, adjacet to Al-Ghouri Architectural Group. The Agecy is a residetial commercial eterprise that has bee used as a shelter for traders from all walks of life. The Agecy is distiguished by the masterpieces of wood ad stoe arts i the late Mamluk period, coverig the residetial spaces, ad supplyig the opeigs of the rooms ad the halls with woode shutters ad woode widows i the style of the carvig. Iterchage of stoe colors) ad its etrace, which reflects the exquisite decorative elemets of the ladscape i the promiet stoe sculpture ad the cave.