The Islamic portion of Cairo was called Babylon by the ancient Greek/Egyptian Pharaohs. It is filled with wonderful old Mosques, but we went to the Muhammad Ali Mosque which was built in the late 1800s. It is run by the Department of Antiquities , which means that it is not a working Mosque. Hence all of the tourists are able to enter it. Despite all of that, it is very , very beautiful. And even though it was not used for services, women still had to be modestly dressed. They had beautiful green robes for women who weren’t modestly dressed and we all had to remove our shoes or put covers over them when we entered the Mosque.
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