The Sultan Almoayyed Al Sheikh Mosque

The Sultan Almoayyed Al Sheikh Mosque or Almoayyed Mosque is one of the famous monumental mosques in Cairo, and is described as the pride of the mosques of the Mamluk-Girassa era. Its construction began in 818 AH/1415 AD on the order of Sultan Al-Muayyad Abul Nasr Saif al-Din Sheikh bin Abdullah al-Mahmoudi al-Dhahiri, one of the rulers of the Mamluk state during the era of the Circassian Mamluks, and before he ascended the sultanate, he was one of the princes of Sultan al-Zahir Saif al-Din Barquq. He died on 8 Muharram 824 AH/1421 AD. The dome of the mosque was still under construction and was completed in Ramadan 824 AH/1421 AD. At that time, many of the extensions of the mosque had not been built as planned, such as the tribal dome and the Sufi houses in the khanqah. The mosque has two mausoleums under the dome, one for Sultan al-Muayyad Sheikh and the other for his sons al-Sarmi Ibrahim, al-Muzaffar Ahmad, and Abu al-Fatah Musa.