This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...rise from the extreme western face of the building; they are indicated on the plan by the small circles with diagonal lines which stand for the low roofs from which they rise. A similar minaret on the south side has been destroyed. These cupolas of Cairo are not always of solid material, nor is it always easy to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...rise from the extreme western face of the building; they are indicated on the plan by the small circles with diagonal lines which stand for the low roofs from which they rise. A similar minaret on the south side has been destroyed. These cupolas of Cairo are not always of solid material, nor is it always easy to ascertain which are of cut stone and which are of the 18S--Eastern face of mosque (Fig. 187). (From Prisse d'Avennes.) hard plaster of the Egyptians laid upon solid brickwork. There are, indeed, some minor cupolas which are built of lath and plaster, but the comparative indifference of the Moslems to the perfect condition of their buildings, has allowed these feeble and imitative structures to betray the inferiority of their building. The mosque called by the curious name, "Mosque of the Pharaohs," and more properly the Mosque of Sengar-el-Gawaly, has two cupolas close together as shown in Fig. 189. Each of these roofs is a tomb-chamber; and these taken together with the great minaret rising above them, have always occupied as much space as the mosque proper, even including its open court. The view is of the north-eastern side, fronting on the street el-Marasineh. The facade, then, is of that twelfth-century Renaissance period in Moslem building when the picturesque stepped battlements were added to the earlier stalactite decoration of the corbelled cornice below. This is one of the few instances in which mosques at Cairo can be said to have street fronts. The entrance doorway is on the left, concealed by the poverty-stricken houses of crude brick in the foreground, but accessible by the ramp seen beyond. The admirable tomb-mosque of KaitBey, one of the most famous among the buildings of Cairo and its neighbourhood, has the beautifully car...
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