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Rambles in Cairo (1917)

Devonshire, R. L., Mrs., b. 1864 · Cairo : The Sphinx Printing Press · leaf 83

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reserved from the time of Saladin for one of the four great Moslem religioussects but I do not know whether that is still the case. The immensesah)i is richly paved in marble, a restored ablution fountain of Turkishdesign occupies the centre of it and the four liwans consist of four greatarches of… … Pliot. Steivaii.Mosque of Sultan Hassan. Mihrab of Funeral Chamber. sanctuary, is decorated by a magnificent plaster-work frieze of gigantickufic characters over a ground of lace-like arabesques and contains ahandsome Mi/ibar and Mihrab. Two splendid bronze doors, with goldincrustations, lead into…

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