Al-Azhar: learning, worship and the city | Islamic heritage.

A respectful introduction to a mosque and institution whose history cannot be separated from its continuing religious and educational life.

These guides are editorial orientation. A cultural-planning enquiry records what you hope to understand; it does not promise an itinerary, access, availability or price.

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

Sources & method: UNESCO — Historic Cairo · Aga Khan Trust for Culture — Historic Cairo · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Art of the Mamluks · Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities — Islamic Cairo

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