Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . side of thelarge arcade leading to the mosque are apartments for the accom-modation of the women who come to pray at the tombs. At theend of this covered passage, on the left, is a small open space, inwhich, opposite to us, is a small door leading to the entrance of themosque. (Nearer us is another door on the left, leading to the mauso-leum of a wife of ex-Khedive Ismail.) As usual in all the mosques,the visitor on entering must put on slippers or linen socks over hisboots. (Bakshish for one
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . side of thelarge arcade leading to the mosque are apartments for the accom-modation of the women who come to pray at the tombs. At theend of this covered passage, on the left, is a small open space, inwhich, opposite to us, is a small door leading to the entrance of themosque. (Nearer us is another door on the left, leading to the mauso-leum of a wife of ex-Khedive Ismail.) As usual in all the mosques,the visitor on entering must put on slippers or linen socks over hisboots. (Bakshish for one person 2, and to the guide 3 piastrestariff. ) The monuments are in white marble, and were executed by 328 Route 4. GEZIREH. Environs Greek and Armenian sculptors. The inscriptions and ornamentationare richly gilded and painted. The Koran is regularly read here,Returning to the sebil already mentioned, we may next visitthe neighbouring so-called Hdsh el-Memdltk, erected in the L8thcent., probably tlic tomb of the Mameluke chief AIL andimily, luit erroneously pointed out as that of the famous. 1. Mother of AbbasPasha. 2. Abbas Pasha [p,107). 3. El-Hami, son ofAlibis. 4. Ahmed PashaYe ken. 5. Hobammed fAHDefterd&r. li. Ibrahim Tusun Pasha,father of Abbas,and his Tomb of TusunImai Bey, whoseremains wereburned in Tusun rAli Ides thesethe mosque con-tains many Othertombs of no importance, chieflj those of the harem. Mameluke general Murad Bey (I Irish Murad Bey), who is interredin the Suhag mosque at Girgeh in Upper Egypt. The principalmonuments stand on a hollow pedestal, and the domes rest onmarble columns. Ch&teau and Park of Gezireh. Ticket of admission from the consulate necessary (p. 241). Distance about 3 H, (a drive of A it should be borne in mind that the Nile is closed from I to about 3 oclock, the time appointed for the of vessels thi gh it. A visit to Gezireh may also be combined with .-in e cur Ion to the Pyramids (o
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