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View of the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As

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Date

c.1839

Artist

Pascal Xavier Coste (1787-1879)

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Pictures From History

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Bridgeman Images

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The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, also called the Mosque of Amr, was originally built in 642 AD, as the centre of the newly-founded capital of Egypt, Fustat. The original structure was the first mosque ever built in Egypt, and by extension, the first mosque on the continent of Africa.
Pascal Xavier Coste was a French architect. His father was one of the leading joiners in Marseille. Showing intellectual and artistic promise, Pascal began his studies in the studio of Penchaud, architect of the departement and the municipalite. In 1814, he was received into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His time in Paris was a pivotal one in his life - there he met the geographer Edme François Jomard, who put him in touch with the viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali, who took Coste on as his architect in 1817.

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image courtesy of Pictures From History

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Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo, Egypt

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