THOUGH, next to the bazaars, the mosques are i the opinion of the Cairo guides the chief lions o Cairo, yet it must be allowed that the ordinary visitor will find a whole day devoted solely to these Moslem temples somewhat tedious. It is certainly advisable to combine the excursion to the mosques with some other kind of sight-seeing. Those who are pressed for time could easily combine an inspection of many of the mosques with a visit to the bazaars, for half a dozen of the most interesting are within a short distance of the junction of the Rue Neuve (the continuation of the Mooski), and Suk-en-Nahassin, the centre of the bazaar quarter, viz. Ghuri, Hassanen, En Nasr Mohammed (not to be confounded with the mosque of the same name in the Citadel), Kalaun, Barkukiyeh, and El-Azhar.

The Mameluke sovereigns were great mosque builders, and it will be noticed that the most interesting mosques date from the end of the thirteenth

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There are over three hundred mosques in Cairoindeed, it is said by the Arabs that, as in the ca of the churches of Rome, there is one for every da of the year-but most are in ruins; a large numbe have been laicised, and there remain scarcely over score that even the most conscientious sight-see would care to explore. The best worth visiting are Amru (Old Cairo), Mohammed Ali, Tulun, Kalaun, Sultan Hassan, El-Hakim (formerly Arab Museum), El-Akbar (Tekiyet), El-Hassanen, Ibrahim Agha, ElGhuri, Abu Bekr, El-Azhar (Moslem University), El Muaiyad, and the tomb-mosques of Kait Bey, ElAshraf Bursbey, and Barkuk (Tombs of the Caliphs). In some of the larger mosques, such as Kalaun, a whole group of public buildings are comprised: besides the mosque proper, there will be found a hospital, school, court of justice, monastery, library,

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