Cairo - El-Aqmar Mosque

Farther up the street which runs north through the old town to Babel-Futuh, on the right, is the El-Aqmar Mosque, the "Gray Mosque", built in 1125 by the Grand Vizier of the Fatimid El-Amir. The handsome facade, with tall pointed arches in rectangular frames, is the oldest mosque facade in Cairo. Near by, in a side street to the right, can be seen the patrician house of Beitel-Siheimi (1648).