Amr Bin Al-Aas Mosque
The mosque built by Amr ibn al-Aas at the time of the conquest of Egypt
In ancient Egypt, the first sanctuary in which Muslims held Friday and congregational prayers in Egypt
Completely different from the mosque we are all seeing now
Where was
It overlooked the Nile, and it was 50 cubits long and 30 cubits wide, and its ground was spread with gravel, and its roof was made of a leaf. In each of its three sides, the eastern, the sea and the western, the mosque had two doors. But nowadays there are many.
From the governors and rulers in increasing and expanding its area
Muslima bin Makhlad (672-673 AD), who built the first minaret there

And Qara bin Shareek, who demolished it and started building it (711-712), and created the hollow mihrab in it.
Then Abdullah bin Taher, the governor of Egypt, ordered by the Caliph Al-Mamoun to expand the mosque, and he added to his land the same from the western side. Issa bin Yazid Al-Julidi completed this increase.
In the aftermath of a fire in the mosque (888 AD), Khammarwayh ordered his building and decorated most of the mosque’s pillars.

In the year 988 AD, the Caliph Al-Aziz Allah ordered to make the fountain under the dome of the House of Money.

And the wooden ceilings surrounding it by Al-Maqdisi Al-Etroshi.
The mosque was repaired during the days of Al-Hakim by God’s command (997), so he renewed its whiteness and removed many of the mosaics of the walls and whitened their place, and the governor also ordered the addition of two porticos to the mosque.

Neither the restoration nor the mosque’s expansion was completed but continued, but we will know tomorrow who else added and expanded Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque.
We will continue the history of the Amr Ibn Al-Aas Mosque
And the repair work has developed in the mosque
In the year 558 AH-1172 AD, Sultan Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, renewed the chest of the mosque and the great mihrab and its marble, painted his name on it, renewed the whiteness of the mosque and repaired its marble.
In the year 696 AH / 1268 AD, the ten palaces overlooking the tribal iwan on the courtyard were renewed, its pillars were renewed, and the whiteness of the mosque was renewed.

In 687 AH / 1288 AD, Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun ordered Prince Izz al-Din al-Afram to build the mosque. The part of the sea wall at the back of the mosque between the eastern gate of the eastern bay in the east and the new minaret to the west, rebuilding it.
Then the building of Chief Burhan al-Din Ibn Omar was the chief merchant of Egypt in the year 804 AH / 1401-1402 AD. In this building, there is no trace left of what Abdullah bin Taher did.
In the year 876 AH-1481, the age of the mosque, Sultan Qaytbay.
Then it was Prince Murad Bey’s building in the year 1212 AH-1797. He repaired the mosque’s structure, built its pillars and eggs, and renewed its roof and bedding with mats, and hung lamps with it. He proved that he had done this renovation on four marble panels.
The mosque was repaired during the era of Muhammad Ali, and the Friday prayer was restored in it. In 1899, the Diwan of Endowments renovated the ceiling of the tribal iwan and some western iwan, and erected its walls and furnished its floor with tiles.
In 1940, the Committee for the Preservation of Arab Antiquities carried out a comprehensive overhaul of the mosque. During this work, several archaeological parts were revealed in the mosque, such as its eastern doors and three of its four doors on the western side, and it was inscribed on one of the mihrabs.
Thus, after all these reforms and changes, nothing remains of the mosque that Amr ibn al-Aas built.