The Mosque of Ibn Tulun is a mosque in Islamic Cairo, Egypt, built between 876 and 879 CE by its namesake Ahmad ibn Tulun and the oldest well preserved mosque in Egypt. Its design was inspired by the ninth century mosques of Samarra in Iraq, then the Abbasid capital, making it an important representative of classical Abbasid architecture and one of the most significant monuments of Islamic architecture in Egypt.
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An Islamic architecture landmark.
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