Bab al Futuh gate (Conquest Gate) is one of three remaining gates in the walls of the old city of Cairo, Egypt. It was finished in the year 1087 and faces north. The gate was part of fortification built by Vizier Badr al-Jamali of Fatimid Imam/caliph Mustansir. Egypt, North Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879

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