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Mosque of Ibn Tulun
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun is a congregational mosque in Cairo, built by Ahmad ibn Tulun for his new capital, al-Qata'i, and completed in 879. Built of brick and decorated with carved stucco, it has a vast courtyard surrounded by arcades and a minaret with an external spiral stair recalling those of Samarra. It survived the destruction of al-Qata'i in 905 and is the oldest mosque in Cairo preserved in its original form.
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