AL- Rifai Mosque
Al-Rifa’i Mosque, is located in Cairo, Egypt, in Midan al-Qal’a, adjacent to the Cairo Citadel. The building is located opposite the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan.
Hussein Pasha Fahmy was commissioned in 1869 by Khedive Ismail’s mother to build a dynastic mosque in the place of a small shrine for al-Rifa`i. He died during construction and work completely stopped in 1880. In 1905 Helmi Pasha commissioned Max Herz who was in charge of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe, to complete the structure. The mosque was finished in 1912.
