This comes for three days from April 2 - 4, corresponding to Ramadan 23 - 25, with the official opening of the exhibition taking place at nine in the evening on Tuesday, April 2, corresponding to Ramadan 23, on the occasion of the celebration of World Heritage Day, which is held on April 18 of each year.

The exhibition includes about 110 paintings that showcase the idea and philosophy of building minarets in mosques as if they were hands raised to the sky in supplication and a place for launching the call for the five prayer times every day. The city of Cairo is distinguished by its enormous diversity of minarets, unlike any other Islamic city in the Islamic world, so much so that it was called the city of a thousand minarets.

The National Organization for Urban Coordination, headed by Engineer Muhammad Abu Saada, is holding the exhibition “Minarets and Domes from Guarded Cairo” in the exhibition hall of Prince Taz Palace.

The exhibition showcases the journey of the development of minaret design styles through the various Islamic eras, starting with the ancient Umayyad, Ikhshidid, and Tulunid era, passing through the Fatimid era and then the Ayyubid era. The exhibition also focuses on the peak of the development of minarets and arriving at the various wonderful models of Egyptian minarets in the Mamluk era, such as the minarets of Qaytbay, Qarafa, Sultan Hassan, Al-Mansur Qalawun, and Al-Nasir Muhammad. Ibn Qalawun, and we continue the journey of the development of minarets in the Ottoman era and the era of Muhammad Ali’s family, all the way to the modern era, in which architects still borrow their designs from the enormous architectural heritage of the various minarets in guarded Cairo.

In parallel with the idea of the development and diversity of minarets, the exhibition also reviews the history of domes and their different types that top shrines or cover parts of the mosque, and sometimes cover the entire prayer house in the Ottoman era and the era of Muhammad