After years of careful restoration work, Mosul’s skyline has reclaimed one of its most beloved symbols, with Unesco placing the final brick in the city’s landmark Al Nuri Mosque minaret. Once ...

Al-Hakim Mosque is the fourth oldest mosque remaining in Egypt and the second largest mosque in Cairo after Ibn Tulun Mosque. It was ordered by the Fatimid Caliph Billah in the year 379 AH / 989 AD ...

The mosque has two distinctive minarets on its north and west corners, which were modified by Al-Hakim himself in 1010 by adding a square salient around them. They are the oldest surviving ...

The mosque was originally built by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah's father, Caliph Al-'Aziz Billah, towards the end of the 10th century, in the year 990, and was later completed by Al-Hakim in the year 1013.