EGYPT LANDMARKS: Mohamed Ali Castle

Mohamed Ali Castle

2:44 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

A trip to the fragrance of the past among the Egyptian Antiquities Eternal ... Fort Egypt, and its wall against invasions Citadel of Salah al-Din ... The concern of later Muhammad Ali Pasha, and to Egypt and named after him after additions The Citadel of Saladin in Cairo of the most prestigious military fortresses that were built in the Middle Ages Vemoqaha strategic first-class provided by this site, including the importance of the defensive because it controls the cities of Cairo and Fustat.

It was Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub first thought of building a castle on a hill in the sound in 572 AH / 1176, where he and the vizier Baha Eddin Al Assadi Karakus demolished mosques The graves were located on the sound so that it is building a castle, where the workers carving a trench rock and artificial separation of the cliffs on the sound increase in the vulnerability and strength Reason to build a castle that Sultan Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub removed to the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt and flipped the matter did not become a ministry in Cairo, from Dar es were still afraid of the same Shiite caliphs. It is said that the reason that prompted him to choose one's Citadel in Cairo, he was hanged meat Changing color by day and night suspended the flesh of another animal in the position of the castle has changed only after two days and nights he ordered construction .. The walls of the castle .... North walls date back to the beginning of the era of Saladin and completed its construction in the era of full and fair and has seen several additions and repairs throughout the ages until the age of Mohammed Ali Pasha. Interspersed corridor walls has a width of 90 centimeters and the corridor leading to the rooms of a narrow square each side of 2.50 meters and a height of 2.25 meters ... By Mohamed Ali Pasha, the renewal of the walls of the castle and in particular the southern wall was not only the renewal of parts of the southern wall, but the whole construction of the fence except for three towers located besides the door or gate of the mountain, Salah Salem is back on the same level of play with the walls and add slots Talith DF slots Mzagl of guns to fit with the development of defensive strategy in the nineteenth century AD And talk about the castle will not end of the architecture, doors, signs and museums .... We will talk about in detail later. And let the images speak for themselves for the Mosque of Mohammed Ali ...

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