Amr ibn al-Aas mosque in Damietta

It is the secod mosque built i Egypt ad Africa built by the Sahabi Galilee Miqdad bi Al Aswad world 21 e after the opeig of Egypt by Amr ib al-Aas The mosque was built i the begiig like the Amr ib al-Aas mosque i Cairo ad the it was rolled over by the differet ages. The caliph al-Mutawakil ordered it ad the area of ​​the mosque after this buildig was rectagular About 56 m log ad 45 m wide This mosque has four facades facig the origial four sides i additio to the south-easter wall (the qibla wall) The wester façade (mai) This facade overlooks a street that rus iside the cemetery ad has the mai etrace door ext to it there is aother small door opeig topped by rectagular woode doors The mai door is topped by a woode vase with a simple kufic iscriptio o it. The mai door is led by a four-colum marble pavilio with corithia crows with a woode ceilig mouted o woode beams This porch is surrouded by a rectagular agle with a orther door with four widows with a wester wall ad two widows with a souther façade, each with a semi-circle O the left side of the roof of the miaret ad o the left of the corer aother rectagular corer also reached from the opeig of a door with its orther wall topped by woode thresholds with a easter wall leadig to the wester gallery The mosque, with its wester wall, opeed three widows with a tapered cotract The mosque cosists of a large ope middle dish surrouded by four arches. The qibla gallery represets the prayer house. It cosists of four paels with poited stoes divided ito four slabs ad perpedicular to these objects. The wall ad the qibla wall have two left mihrabs. The oldest oe is its icome, which is reverberated iside the wall. It is made of a tapered cotract cosistig of a vessel with simple radiographic decoratio of plaster, edig with four rows of muqaras The secod mihrab is located o the right of the former mihrab Ad there is a book bar i this gallery writte verses of the Kora i the calligraphy simple, ad the impact of this tape about 3 m at about 25 m ad is located i the wester part of the souther wall The wester gallery cosists of seve tiles ad six blocks, whose cotracts are carried out parallel to the qibla wall ad their poited type cotracts are mouted o marble colums roud the corithia crows The orther portico cosists of 15 slabs ad 14 arches whose colums are poited vertically o the orther wall. The easter side of the hall has two small rooms The roof of the mosque is made of wood. It is a large woode parapet free of ay decoratios. The rectagular courtyard is 26 m log ad 21 m high. Its floor level is lower tha the rest of the arches ad is paved with marble. It is mediumed by a bottle The miaret is the oldest part ad it eeds a comprehesive restoratio process. It is located o the wester façade of the mosque with a square base, with a legth of about 4.30 m, (This has bee the Miistry of Atiquities comprehesive restoratio of the uiversity i the period from 2005 to 2009 ad was retured to the previous era ad Roogh)