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Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque
Alexandria's most celebrated mosque, built over the tomb of a thirteenth-century Sufi saint.
- Editor's score
- 4.4
- Visit
- 30 min
- Price
- Free
About
Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi was a Sufi scholar from Murcia in Spain who settled in Alexandria in the thirteenth century. His shrine has been rebuilt several times, and the present mosque, completed in the 1940s, is a graceful work in cream stone with a tall minaret and domes. Inside, its arcades are finely decorated with arabesques and geometric patterns.
Best time to go: Visit outside prayer times, dressed modestly, on the way to the Citadel of Qaitbay.
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