Cairo - Bab el-Azab

To the south of the Sultan Hasan Mosque is a large elongated square, the Midan Salah ed-Din (Saladin Square), where the caravans for Mecca used to assemble. On its east side is the Citadel, with a massive gate tower, the Bab el-Azab, formerly the main entrance. In the lane behind it the leaders of the Mamel ukes were massacred on Mohammed Ali's orders in 1811.