Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Ibn Tulun mosque

Ibn Tulun mosque

Ibn Tulun mosque
Mosque of Ibn Tulun mosque is set up by Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 263 AH. Ahmad Ibn Tulun spent 120 thousand dinars in the construction, engineering matters were interested in the construction of the mosque. Minaret of the mosque is the oldest minaret found in Egypt. The Mosque of Ibn Tulun mosque only in Egypt, which was dominated by model Samarra, where the minaret Helicobacter listed. And cared by the Sultan Lajin where some reforms in it, and was appointed to a range of manufacturers, as is industry-hour in, they made the dome where strands small number of hours of day and night slot, if passed hour energy which is closed for that hour and so on, and then come back each time. In Ayyubites era became the Mosque of Ibn Tulun University taught by the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence, as well as modern and medicine as well as the education of orphans


about Ibn Tulun mosque

And Coptic Said bin Forghani Starter and followed by Badr al-Jamali to repair the mosque of Ibn Tulun has reforms in this mosque several times, also extended to him by the destruction and devastation in different periods of days through, like that of many other mosques. In Year 470 AH: 1077/78 AD The Badr al-Jamali, Minister Caliph al-Mustansir Fatimid some reforms mosque, and put on board a marble top a door Destination Marine, where care by Caliph al-Mustansir and ordered work niche of plaster portico kiss, very perfection, in addition to Mihraban Jsaan other one belongs to Tulunid era, and the second in the Fatimid era, both corridor kiss too.
And cared Mosque of Ibn Tulun King Fuad I, too, and work to repair the mosque where the Remember Arab Antiquities in 1882 restored and repaired in the year 1918, by order of King Fuad I prepare a draft for repair overhaul and release of what turned him from buildings and monitor so forty thousand pounds spent in a calendar falter of construction and renovation and restoration of the egg-white ceilings and decoration
 
The form of the Ibn Tulun mosque
The length of the Whole 138 m long and 118 meters surrounded by three points - Marine Bank and tribal - three increases View all of which 19 Mtraoicon combined with these increases square whose sides measure 162 meters on the face of rounding of an open courtyard square along the rib 92 meters strikethrough dome mounted octagonal neck based on a square base by four arched openings and Bustha basin to wash and no peace within the thickness of marine Haútha climb it to the level of the neck. The courtyard is surrounded by four corridors of the largest gallery kiss and includes five rows of tapered contracts carried on the shoulders of a rectangular sector Astdert corners in the form attached to poles and includes all of the other three galleries on two rows only. It covers the four corridors roof of a modern wood-made and at the bottom, rode Mizar old wood labeled of the Koran Kufic magnifier

Photos of the Ibn Tulun mosque