Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque 🕌🤍 It is one of the famous ancient mosques in Cairo. Ahmed Ibn Tulun, founder of the Tulunid state, ordered its construction in the year 263 AH/877 AD in his new city, Al-Qata’, to become the third mosque in the Islamic capital of Egypt after the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque, which was built in Fustat, although the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque still exists until the Tulunid Mosque is considered the oldest mosque. Egypt that exists so far because it has retained its original condition in comparison with the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque, which has undergone reforms that changed its features. Where the mosque was built on a rocky hill that was known as the Mount of Shaker, and it is considered one of the hanging mosques. It is one of the largest mosques in Egypt, with an area of ​​about six and a half acres with external increases. It was built in the form of a square inspired by the Abbasid mosque styles, especially the Samarra Mosque in Iraq.