Mosque of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

A vast Fatimid mosque anchored by two of Cairo's most singular stone-clad minarets.

Begun by the caliph al-Aziz and completed in 1013 under his son al-Hakim, this is the second-largest of Cairo's Fatimid mosques, standing beside the northern walls. Its minarets, later encased in massive stone bastions after an earthquake, are among the oldest surviving in the city; the mosque was extensively restored by the Bohra community in the 1980s.