Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, Cairo (117. Kaire. 1843 Ga?ma Soultan Ansoun de?tails [sic]) 1842–1843 Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Girault’s innovative double image depicts the two stone minarets of the Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, which was begun in 990 and completed in the early eleventh century. The earliest surviving minarets in Cairo, they are different from one another in shape and decoration, but both have tops that were replaced in the early fourteenth century after an Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, Cairo (117. Kaire. 1843 Ga?ma Soultan Ansoun de?tails [sic]). Joseph-Philiber
Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, Cairo (117. Kaire. 1843 Ga?ma Soultan Ansoun de?tails [sic]) 1842–1843 Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey Girault’s innovative double image depicts the two stone minarets of the Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, which was begun in 990 and completed in the early eleventh century. The earliest surviving minarets in Cairo, they are different from one another in shape and decoration, but both have tops that were replaced in the early fourteenth century after an Mosque of Sultan al-Hakim, Cairo (117. Kaire. 1843 Ga?ma Soultan Ansoun de?tails [sic]). Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (French, 1804–1892). 1842–1843. Daguerreotype. Photographs
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