Egypt · ISLAMIC CAIRO

Islamic Cairo: al-Mu’izz Street, Sultan Hassan and al-Rifai

A working quarter. Cover shoulders and knees; women should carry a scarf.

The medieval quarter is a lived-in neighbourhood with a thousand years of mosques, madrasas and gates still standing in it — al-Mu’izz Street after dark, Sultan Hassan and al-Rifai facing each other below the Citadel, Bab Zuwayla above the tentmakers. People pray, shop and live here. Cover up, take shoes off where asked, and keep out of prayer halls during prayer.

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