When you visit Cairo, you will easily find the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, thanks to its outstanding features: its dome rises to a height of 52 meters, and the two minarets on the eastern side reach no less than 84 meters. Walking around the mosque, you will soon discover why it is also called the “Alabaster Mosque”. The interior and exterior walls are incredibly covered with 11 meters of marble. The Mosque of Muhammad Ali crowns the Saladin Citadel in Cairo. It was built between 1830 and 1848 by the architect Youssef Bouchnak and at the request of Muhammad Ali Pasha.
