Cairo - El-Rifai Mosque

Shari el-Qala ends in the spacious Midan Mohammed Ali, on the east side of which is the El-Rifai Mosque, built in 1912, on the model of the Sultan Hasan Mosque, to house the tomb of Khedive Ismail. The ex Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (1919-80), is buried here.