Al- Rifai Mosque Cairo Egypt

In the mosque you can visit a group of old tombs of the kings of the modern state, such as the tomb of Sultan Hussein Kamel and his wife, as well as Khedive Ismail and his mother, so this mosque has features that make tourists invite this mosque to see the wonderful royal tombs. You will find a group of sheikhs who were buried in this mosque.

Take a tour inside the Al-Rifa’i Mosque and enjoy learning about the history of the founder of the modern state, his sons and grandchildren, as well as see one of the most beautiful mosques of the twentieth century, which is distinguished by the beauty of designing and the cleverness of construction.

The magic of the Islamic architecture surrounds the Al-Rifai Mosque.
The Al-Rifai Mosque is located at the middle of a large group of mosques that have a long history. These mosques that surrounding this mosque are distinguished by the presence of different colors of the wonderful Islamic arts used in the construction of the Al-Rifai Mosque, or example Muhammad Ali Mosque, Nasser Qalawun Mosque, Mahmoudiya Mosque, and Sultan Hassan Mosque.

All of these mosques were built during the period in which the arts of architecture in which the arts of architecture flourished .The mosque is next to The Citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, which gives it a great historical importance.

This castle is the most famous castles in the world and is located on the Mokattam Mountain at the top of the old Cairo area, so it is possible when you reach the Al-Rifai Mosque To take a tour in a short time in order to learn about the history of ancient Cairo during the reign of the Mamluks, the Fatimids and the Ayyubids, and the modern history of Egypt.

Visit one of the oldest mosques in Egypt that tells about a long history of the struggle against the Crusaders and Tatars.

You will find many surprises inside the Al-Rifai Mosque.
When entering the Al-Rifai Mosque, you will find in the eastern side a wonderful, attractive niche covered with marble. On other both sides of the niche you will find two columns, one of them is white and the other is green.

In the center of the mosque there are very beautiful corners with decorations and beautiful golden colors. These wonderful marble columns of the corners were brought from Turkey, France, Belgium and Beni Suef.

There is a huge pulpit next to the niche made of ebony wood, and there is also the Koran chair, and this chair is very luxurious. When you go to the other side of the mosque, you will find six doors that are colored doors that lead you to the graveyard.

in One of the rooms you will find the graves of children and daughters of Khedive Ismail, and above this room there is a dome with beautiful colors, but in the second room you will find the tombs of Khedive Ismail, his father and his mother Mrs.

Koshyar This room has very luxurious marble and this room is furnished with luxurious carpets and there are beautiful lamps and chairs for Qur’ans.

The history of the Al-Rifai Mosque.
If you read about the history of this mosque, , you will know that the origin of the mosque was a primitive mosque with a tomb for the sheikh called Ali Al-Rifai.

After building, the mosque was named after another one called Ahmed Al-Rifiai who was buried in Al-Iraq Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifai was born in Iraq and he memorized the Holly Qur’an and learned knowledge while he was very young.

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifai wrote a group of books and the author of the idea of establishing the mosque was Mrs. Khoshyar, a Turkish lady, and she was the wife of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali, the founder of modern Egypt, and she was the Khedive Ismail mother She was known as Al walda pasha. This woman lived in Garden City area.

Who is the engineer who designed Al-Rafi’i Mosque?
He was Hussein Fahmy Pasha, who was the governor of Alexandria and this person married the daughter of Muhammad Ali Pasha. He was a very cultured person and he read many books and traveled to France until he joined the Military School as well as joined the School of Higher Engineering in Paris and that was a great achievement.

He returned to Egypt and was the governor of Suez, then he was the deputy of the Ministry of Endowments, and in this period, he designed the Al-Rifai Mosque, and then Construction stopped for 25 years, then a person called Max Pasha complete the construction of the mosque. this designer lived in Egypt in 1890 .

He was responsible for building and maintaining the Islamic and Coptic monuments in Egypt.