Mosque of Sultan Hassan
Mosque Madrassa of Sultan Hassan
Egypt, Cairo
The Sultan Hassan Mosque is considered stylistically the most compact and generalizing of all the monuments of Cairo. It is one of the masterpieces of Mamluk architecture. The building was built by Sultan Hassan bin al-Nasser Muhammad Qalawun in 1356 to serve as a mosque and religious school for all four legal branches of Sunni Islam.