Architecture in Islamic Egypt

When the Arabs conquered Egypt and other countries did not have any experience in the field of architecture, with imposed desert environment to live in the desert and cities in the Arabian Peninsula isolated from the rest of ancient civilizations, whether in Iraq or Egypt or Yemen, no parallel in the Arab Peninsula buildings, huge temples or inadequate or houses which have seen building greatness in Pharaonic Egypt, such as the temples of Karnak and Abu Simbel, Luxor, Medinet Habu, as well as the pyramids indicate the extent to which the ancient Egyptians in the field of architecture, which continued during the Greco and Roman were the establishment of the temples of Philae and Edfu and Dendera as well as the establishment of the city of Alexandria Bembaineha great luxury, as well as military forts such as impregnable fortress of Babylon in Old Cairo

 So when the Muslims conquered Egypt and the Arabs to enter the Islamic era, Muslims began the use of siblings Christians to help them build their mosques and homes, palaces, markets and bathrooms and other buildings

Was natural that shows the influence of ancient Egyptian civilization, Greek Romanian in Islamic architecture first in Egypt, because Albany is the same as the Egyptian, who built these buildings in ancient Egypt, Greek, Romanian and is reflected and evident in the architecture of mosques in Egypt in terms of design the mosque, as well as the constituent elements of the mosque, as well as decoration and we find this clear in the presence of main entrance leads to an open courtyard and lounge for the columns and the interior of the prayer , The mihrab and the place we find the same components that resemble the temples, churches and different jobs and titles

As well as the presence of obelisks, and towers in the temples, churches, and we find represented in the mosque Palmazn. We also find that the design of windows and equipped with colored glass in the churches, has been applied in the windows of mosques as well as the decoration of temples and religious texts like in the churches, which are decorated with great Coptic Christian texts and also decoration of mosques texts from the Koran to aspects of the decoration of mosques, especially in niche

The Muslims in Islamic Egypt at the Arab conquest living in tents in Fustat With the increase in numbers after the arrival of their family in Egypt began to build houses and palaces and administrative buildings such as the house of money and the courthouse and other buildings on the same architectural styles of Christianity in Egypt, together with the architectural elements of ancient Egyptian civilization especially in the windows and ventilation and the use of natural lighting and decoration in buildings

With the passage of time, Muslims began to distil architecture of their own by adding elements of Muslim individual not known to civilization, the Egyptian pharaohs or during the Greco-Roman enter geometrical and floral decorations in Islamic architecture, either in buildings of stone or wood items and we find this more evident than in what influenced by the Islamic mosques in Egypt Since the interior and exterior wall decorations have become a single new era with all of the medieval Islamic era in Egypt, whether governors or Ataiwlaunayn or the Fatimids and the Mamluks , Or even the Ottoman era, we find that every era has its own characteristics, especially in the minarets and domes. As well as palaces and houses, so that archaeologists through the study of verse architectural elements can determine the age of any building or a mosque or a door or an architect through the characteristics of each era