Al Rifai Mosque Cairo

With Whit Bird Travel you will be taken to an Islamic tour to learn about Al-Refai mosque and when it was built and built in two stages between 1869 and 1912. It was built in 1869 at a site claimed to be the former Zawyet Al Rufai ' Ordered by Khoshyar Hanem, mother of Khedivi Ismail in the 19th century. It was designed by architect Hussein Fahri Pasha, but the construction ceased in 1880. The design would have been modified after Khoshyar Hanem’s death in 1885, and continued construction under Abbas Helmi II, and continued construction by order of the Austrian-origin Max Hertz Basha He was assisted by Carlo Virgilio Silvani of Italy, and resumed construction in 1905. The construction of the mosque was completed in 1911, and the first time of Friday prayers was opened in 1912.

You will see the effort made by the skilled builders and architects almost perceptible, as you will see the greatness of the mosque’s design. They put their effort into every detail when building the mosque.

This mosque was built on the latest style where construction materials were imported from Europe and the mosque was a Bahari Mamluk style that was similar to the European shape in the 19th and 20th centuries

 
This mosque was built in a rectangular shape, and its area is about 6,500 square meters. It is divided into two parts, the first of which 1,767 square meters was allocated for prayer and the rest was a shrine for the royal family, as Khoshyar Hanem wanted to build it, so that it would serve as a tomb for the royal family in the first place.

The mosque contains two shrines, the shrines of Sheikh Yahiya Al-Ansari and Ali Abu Shabak, and includes the royal family, where there are members of the family of Muhammad Ali from Khoshyar Hanem, including the sons and daughters of Khedive Ismail, King Farouk, and King Fouad, and another is buried. The Shah of Iran was buried at Refai Mosque in 1980.