- Aka: Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha or Albaster Mosque
- Location: Citadel, Cairo, Egypt
- Built by: Commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha in memory of his eldest son
- Built in year: Took 27 years. 1830 – 1857
- Special Features & Measurements:
- Largest mosque built in the first half of 19th century
- Animated silhouette and twin minarets
- Most Visible Mosque in Cairo
- Stripped walls were clad with wood painted to look like marble
- Square shaped. 41 x 41 m
- Mosque 52 m and Minarets 82 m high
- Central Dome 21 m high...!
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