Al-Azhar Mosque

Abstract

Locals resting and reading in the shade provided by the ambulatories adjacent to the mosque's courtyard. The "pre-Islamic marble columns (spolia) with Corinthian capitals" of the mosque are also visible here. -MA

References

“Jami' al-Azhar.” Archnet, https://archnet.org/sites/2311 Accessed 21 Sept. 2017.

Image Notes

Creation date unknown. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly cataloged as B05.037. Notes written on the slide of index: El-Ahzar.

Identifier E.037
Location Cairo, Egypt
Year 1963
Batch Stamp SEP 63
Printed Date September, 1963
Index Notes El-Ahzar