Cairo: Interior of the Mosque of Qaitbay; worshippers pray next to wall niches, or Mihrabs, pub. 187 Creator: Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79).

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Cairo: Interior of the Mosque of Qaitbay; worshippers pray next to wall niches, or Mihrabs; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (chromolithograph). Two men pray in the ornately decorated interior of the Mosque of Qaitbay, part of what is now known as the Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay; built by Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay () in 1474; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; illustrations of Islamic art, architecture, woodwork, tiling, interiors, furnitute etc.; Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century.

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