Cemeteries

The entire eastern side of Cairo is filled with cemeteries, some well over 1000 years old.  While there are many different sections, we’re broadly dividing them into northern and southern sections, with the Citadel as the middle point.

Northern:

Tomb of Qansuh Abu Sa’id

Complex of al-Ashraf Inal

Amir Qurqumas Complex

Tombs of Princess Ruqayya Abd Al-Halim and Princess Shawikar

Tomb of Anas

Khanqah and Tomb of al-Nasir Faraj ibn Barquq

Qubba ‘Asfur

Tomb of Barsbay al-Bagasi

Tomb of Amir Sulayman

Qubba Gani Bak al-Ashrafi

Mausoleum of Qurqumas

Qubba al-Saba’ Banat

Qubba Ma‘bad al-Rifa‘i

Qubba Khadija Umm al-Ashraf

Takiya of Ahmad Abu Sayf (1400s)

Complex of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay

Complex of Qaytbay

Mausoleum of Abdallah al-Minufi

Façade of the Tomb of Murad Bey

Tomb of Mankalibugha al-Fakhri

Tomb of Ibn Ghurab

Tomb of Gulshayni

Qubba al-Amir Tashtimur

Funerary Complex of Sulayman Pasha al-Silahdar

Mausoleum of Khedive Tawfiq

Qubba Ghuzal

Darih Umm Anuk/Khawand Tughay

Tomb of Khawand Tulbay

Hawd and Tomb of Qadi Muhammad Mawahib

Qubba Kuz al ‘Asal (Nasrallah)

Qubba Azrumuk

Southern:

Mashhad of Um Kulthum (and Qasim Abu Tayyib)

Mashhad Yahya al-Shabihi

Mausoleum of Isma’il ibn Tha’lab

Mausoleum of al-Hasawati

Mausoleum and sabil-kuttab of Radwan Bey al-Razzaz

al-Shafi’ Mausoleum

Mausoleum of Ali Bey al-Kabir and Isma’il Bey al-Kabir

Hosh al-Basha

Mausoleum of Abdallah al-Dakruri

Mausoleum of Uthman Bey Qazdaghli  (1766)

Mausoleum of Radwan Bey

Azdumur Minaret

Zawiya Zayn al-Din Yusuf

Tomb of Khwand Urdutakin

Tomb of Amir Tankizbugha

Tomb of al-Sawabi

Qubba al-Amir Sudun

Southern Minaret

Qubba ‘Ali Badr al-Din al-Qarafi

Tomb of Timurbay al-Husayni

Bab al-Qarafa

Masjid Nur al-Din/Messih Pasha

Qubba wa-Khanqah al-Amir Qawsun

Qubba al-Turba al-Sultaniyya

Masjid al-Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri

Masjid Sayyida Aisha

Qubba of Shaykh Abdullah

Mausoleum of Aqtay al-Farisi

Qubba wa Hawd Ya’qub Shah al-Mihmandar

Jami’ al-Juyushi

Mashhad Ikhwat Yusuf

Masjid al-Lu’lu’a

Sidi Omar Ibn al-Farid

Mosque and Mausoleum of Shahin Al-Khalwati