Bab el-Futuh (Gate of Conquest), Fatimid Wall, Cairo

RIBA Ref No RIBA58873

Country	Egypt
City	Cairo
Subject Date	1087
Image Date	1870
View	Exterior
Style	Islamic
Medium	Photoprint
Library Reference	9444
Orientation	Portrait
Colour Info	Colour
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	Fortifications ; Arches ; City walls ; Gateways ; Stone

NOTES: This is one of the three massive gateways of the Fatimid wall built by three Syrian brothers from Edessa for Badr al-Jamali, who ruled Egypt from 1074 to 1094. The other two gateways are the Bab an-Nasr (Victory Gate) and the Bab Zuwayla.

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