Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo, Egypt. Built by Saladin in 1176 until 1183, using prisoners of Norman. Added to the Muhammad Ali mosque. Been the seat of power in Egypt since the days of Saladin (1183) until the transfer of Khedive Ismail, the seat of government to Abdeen Palace, which was built for this purpose was held in 1860. Saladin's castle is located in a castle - the successor - has been erected on one of the hills are separated from the Mt Mokattam on the outskirts of the city of Cairo.
Is the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo, the most luxurious of the castles built by the military in the Middle Ages Vemoqaha strategic first-class provided by this site, including the importance of defense that controlled the cities of Cairo and Fustat, as it constitutes a natural barrier between the two cities up and this site can provide communication between the the castle and the city in a state of siege and it will become the last bastion of the sit-in the case if the city fell, however, the enemy.
Over these many VFED castle and many historic events as seen walls of various historical events through the ages Ayubi and Mamluk era and the French campaign on Egypt in 1798, and even took the Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt, where it has its prosperity and greatness. Sultan Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub first thought of building a castle on the hill Alsop in 572 AH / 1176, where he and the minister Baha'eddin Qracoc Asadi demolished mosques and graves that were on Alsop in order to build the castle, where the workers Bnan rock and a trench artificially separated from the Mt Mokattam Alsop increase in the vulnerability and strength.
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