List of mosques in Cairo

Cairo has always been known as the City of a Thousand Minarets due to the large number of mosques, and its well known reputation of a beautiful skyline of minarets that can be seen from any high roof. This is a list of Mosques in Cairo from different dynastic periods.

Rashidunids

• Mosque of Amr ibn al-As

Abbasids

• Mosque of Ibn Tulun
• Abbasid Caliphs Mausoleum

Fatimids

• Al-Azhar Mosque
• Aqmar Mosque
• Al-Hakim Mosque
• Al-Hussein Mosque
• Juyushi Mosque
• Lulua Mosque
• Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque
• Mosque-Mausoleum Zaynab
• Sayyidah Ruqayya Mashhad
• Sayyeda Nafisa Mosque

Ayyubids

• Mosque of Nejm Edin Ayyub

Mamluks

• Aqsunqur Mosque
• Madrasa of Sarghatmish
• Mosque of Sultan al-Muayyad
• Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan
• Complex of Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun
• Al-Nasir Muhammad Mosque
• Madrassa of Al-Nasir Muhammad
• Ahmed al-Mihmandar complex
• Tomb of Salar and Sangar-al-Gawli
• Emir Qurqumas complex
• Sultan Al-Ghuri Complex
• Sultan Barquq Mosque
• Ashraf Barsbay school
• Sheikh Mutahar mosque
• Fakahani Mosque
• Mosque of Amir al-Maridani
• Mosque of Aytmush
• Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay
• Sultan al-Ashraf Inal
• Al-Ishaqi Mosque
• The Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu
• Taghri Bardi mosque
• Mosque of Ilgay al-Yusufi
• Madrassa of Qanibey Emir Akhur
• Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars

Ottomans and Alawiyya Dynasty

• Abu el Dahab Mosque
• Sulayman Pasha al-Khadim Mosque
• Mosque of Muhammad Ali
• Al-Rifa'i Mosque
• Suleyman Agha Selihdar complex
• Mosque of Yusuf Agha al-Hin
• The Mosque of al-Burdayni
• Mosque of Mahmud Pasha
• Khekia Mosque
• Mosque of Sayyida Aisha
• Mosque of Ali el-Mutahhir

Modern

• Mustafa Mahmoud mosque
• Mosque of Hamdiya Shazliya
• Al-Nour mosque
• Al-Rahman mosque
• Rabia Al-Adawiya Mosque
• Qowat Mosalaha mosque

See also

• List of buildings in Cairo