The Working Mosque

This litograph of the Mu'ayyad Mosque in Cairo in 1849, shows the mosque in use for classical Islamic teaching.

The Mihrab is on the extreme left, with the Mimbar alongside.

On the other side a teacher addresses a crowd from the high Dikka...

at the foot at which stands a Kursi.

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