Sunday, June 12, 2011

The great mosque of Abu El Abbas El Morsi


The mosque of the murcian 

Abu El Abbas 
The mosque of the modern age and exists in the second capital of Egypt, Alexandria near the Mediterranean Sea that makes it look beautiful from far and near 

This mosque was built in 1775 by an Algerian named Sheik Abu El-Hassan El-Maghraby, the mosque of El-Morsy Abul-Abbas was built over the grave of Andalusian sufi Ahmed Abu-El-Abbas El-Morsy in the 13 century which joined the brotherhood Shadhali in Alexandria as a Sufi devotee. 
It is a very famous mosque in both Alexandria and throughout Egypt, was dedicated to the great hermit Muslim, Abul-Abbas Morsy, who was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1219.then came to Alexandria to teach Islamic theology in the Mosque of El Attarin. El Morsy died in 1287 and was buried in a place where there is now a mosque 

 
Built in 1929, the current mosque was modeled on the character of Andalusia with a single-walled octagonal 22 meters. The surface area of ​​the mosque is 3000 square meters.
Throughout the centuries, the restoration works were sent by different governors have built tombs beside the chapel. In 1943, the King Faruq I built the Great Measure the Massage, or "Dome of the square, which has an area of ​​nearly 43, 200 square meters. In the center of this square is the mosque, surrounded by five mosques. 



Each year the mosque receives such a large number of people as pilgrims celebrating the Mulid (birth) of Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi. 
The walls of the mosque are covered with artificial stone and there is a beautiful mosaic of 5, 60 meters high. To take the roof, which is decorated with arabesques, there are sixteen columns of Italian granite. These columns support the arches are 17. 20 m.

There are two entrances to the mosque, one for men and another for women, and do not forget to remove your shoes at the entrance to every mosque 
The conclusion: we must recognize that tourism of Egypt is the great tourism


The egyptian tourism is the super tourism


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