Photos .. Mosque Sheikh Abu al-Khair .. I see 104 years of Islamic style

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In the center of the city of Ehansia, west of Beni Suef Governorate, inside the ancient Pharaonic region, which was the seat of the rule of the country in ancient Pharaonic Persia, the Sheikh Abu Al-Khair Mosque, one of the oldest mosques, is located in the center of Ahnasia, Abu Hassan 335 Hijri, corresponding to 1915.

"Day Seven", monitoring the mosque, which is located on an area of ​​600 meters, and can accommodate 800 worshipers with a large destination that exceeded thirty meters designed in the Islamic style .

The seventh day tour, inside the mosque, which reaches the prayer area of ​​the mosque 400 meters, has been covered with wood since its construction. It is topped by 12 pillars. The mosque is made of wood and stained glass, and the walls are decorated with Andalusian paintings.

The mosque is a 40-meter-high mosque, designed in the style of Mamluk minarets, with a spiral staircase in its middle, which was used by the muezzin to preach on prayer.

Ahmed Abu al-Khair, one of the grandsons of Sheikh Abu Al-Khair, said that his grandfather Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Abdul Wahid, known as Sheikh Abu al-Khair was born in 1885 and graduated from Al-Azhar in 1916. He pointed out that his grandfather is one of the disciples of Sheikh Muhammad al-Kurdi , Sheikh of Naqshbandi

The grandson of Sheikh, said that the mosque was built in 1915, and remained without renewal until it was renewed in 1950, by the grandmother Sheikh Abu al-Khair, and the people of the city of Ahnasia .

Mamdouh Fathi, a resident of the area, said that the story of Sheikh Abu al-Khair shrine was cut by my grandparents and my parents, Li and my sisters. "Sheikh Abu al-Khair wanted to be buried in the empty area that was behind the mosque, but Mamdouh added that the Coptic woman agreed to sell When the death of Shaykh Abu al-Kheir and Fatatah approached the shrine of Sheikh Abu al-Khair next to the mosque.

Mamdouh Abu al-Khair said that the mosque is considered one of the most important signs of the city of Ahnassia. It is witnessing a great number of people from the city especially in Taraweeh prayers during the month of Ramadan.

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