Cairo Collection (page 17)

The Holy Carpet carried to Mecca
The start of the great annual Mohammedan pilgrimage with the holy carpet to the sacred Kaaba shrine in Mecca. The carpet is said to be the actual one on which the Prophet Mohammed prayed and is 1

The Citadel and Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt. In the 12th century, Saladin and his successors built an impenetrable bastion in the Citadel, using the most advanced construction techniques of the age

Walida School and Sibil - Cairo, Egypt. Walida means The Mother and is named after the Khedives Wife. Sibil relates to the public fountain on the left of the shot

A mosque in Egypt -- possibly in Cairo, where there are many

View toward The Pyramids Giza, Egypt
View across an irrigation channel and through some tall thin palm trees toward The Pyramids Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Interior of the Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
The interior of the Muhammad Ali Mosque, Cairo, Egypt. Muhammad Ali Pasha (1769 - 1849), is regarded as the " founder of modern Egypt"

Cairo Dancing Girl, Egypt
A Dancing Girl from Cairo, Egypt - adorned with a multide of long necklasses and tassles

Arabic School, Cairo, Egypt
An Arabic School in Cairo, Egypt

The Tombs of the Khalifs, Cairo, Egypt

Arab Carpentry Shop, Cairo, Egypt, making screens, furniture, bookstands and Mother-of-pearl inlay

Native School, Cairo, Egypt
A Native School in Cairo, Egypt. Children gather around the teacher of the lesson, beside a finely cut Wooden screen

Boat on the Nile, Cairo, Egypt

Pyramids at Giza
The pyramids of Khufu and Khafre at Giza with the Sphinx in the foreground. A very early aeroplane flies above these wonders of the Ancient World

General View of Cairo, Egypt
General view over the domes, minarets and rooftops of Cairo, Egypt

Arabian street Cafe scene - Cairo, Egypt. Men sit and drink and chat on the street and in the alcove recess behind the coffee / tea stall

Mounted English Cavalry soldier in Cairo
Mounted English Cavalry soldier in front of the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo

Sugar Cane Sellers / Market, Cairo, Egypt

Cairo, Egypt - Family and Donkey
Cairo, Egypt. A beautiful postcard depicting a woman and her child sitting on a donkey (being led by her husband)

The Lintel of the Tomb of Ay
Illustration showing the carvings found on the lintel of the Tomb of Ay at El Amarua, near Cairo in Egypt, 1909

The Holy Carpet, before its journey to Mecca
A Holy Carpet, embroidered with texts from the Koran, photographed shortly before its journey to Mecca from Cairo where it was woven

A Fruit-Woman of Cairo
Engraving made from a painting by F. Goodall, entitled A Fruit-Woman of Cairo, exhibited at the New British Institution, 1875. Date: 1875

Mecca Pilgrims Cairo
Pilgrims leave Cairo for Mecca

Cholera in Egypt
Scene in the courtyard of a house in Cairo. The patients were laid in the courtyard partly because of the cooler temperatures and also because the occupants were afraid of infection

Cairo / Circa 1700(Allard)
A view toward Cairo. Date: circa 1700

Social / Catskills Street
People and traffic in Cairo, Catskill Mountains, New York State

Nilometer / Cairo
Nilometer, Cairo. Used to measure the height of the Nile at flood. Also the site traditionally believed to be where Miriam discovered Moses

Mosque Minarets / Cairo
Minarets of the Muhammed Ali Mosque, the tallest rising to 84 metres

Sultan Hassan Mosque
The minarets of the Sultan Hassan Mosque, one rising to a height of 81.6 metres

Muhammed Ali Mosque
Mosque of Muhammed Ali, the Alabaster Mosque, built around 1824

St Sergius Church / Cairo
The gateway of the Hanging Church, St Sergius, Cairo. It houses a deep crypt, 10 metres below the church floor. Date: circa 1970

Cairo Street Scene / C1970
A Cairo Street scene

Cairo / Circa 1970
General view of Cairo from the Citadel, with Old Cairo in the foreground

Mameluke of Cairo
A Mameluke of Cairo, smoking a hookah, is waited on by a servant, who brings him coffee on a tray

Ciaro from the Nile
View of Cairo from the Nile

Egyptian Men
Two upper-class women of Cairo in conversation

Egypt Cairo
Students in the outer court of El Azhar; they are more probably studying the Koran than differential calculus

Tutankhamuns Throne
The gold back rest of the throne of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)

Holy Carpet Returns
The Holy Carpet returns across the desert to Cairo, after making the pilgrimage to Mecca

Fair / Amusement Wheel
CAIRO, EGYPT - An Arab-style amusement wheel

Peepshow / Cairo Fair
Egyptians view peepshows at a fair held near Cairo in Heliopolis

Egyptian Lady and Bird
A woman of Cairo with her pet bird perched on her hand

Taking it Easy
While others fight, the British take it easy in Cairo with friendly girls and flowing champagne

Shepheards Cairo 1
Shepheards Hotel, Cairo

Egyptian Campaign 1798
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN Napoleon urges his men across the desert from Alexandria to Cairo, taking the short route via Damanhour

Blue Mosque, Cairo
Moslems at prayer in the Blue Mosque, Cairo (Egypt)

Show of British Force
A FRIENDLY POWER IN EGYPT The Welsh Regiment (Late 41st) marching through the Metwali Gate in the Main Street of the native part of Cairo

Napoleon at Cairo
Napoleon, at Cairo during his Egyptian campaign, goes out riding all by himself, and stops on a hill to look at the city, while on a distant rooftop Egyptians pray

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