Miro from Cairo

Ibn Tulun Mosque was commissioned in 879 AD by Ahmed ibn Tulun, the founder of the Tulunid dynasty. It is considered one of the oldest intact mosques in Egypt.

The architect called Saiid Ibn Kateb Al-Farghany was Coptic. Legend has it that Ibn Tulun asked him to source 500 marble pillars from churches.

But he told him he will build him a magnificent mosque that will never burn or flood using brick piers and without any pillars.

Al-Farghany also built the Nilometer on Rawda Island and the aqueduct of Ibn Tulun.