Ahmad Al Badawi Mosque

The Mawlid on his birthday at Ahmad al-Badawi's grave in Tanta

The Ahmad-al-Badawi Mosque ( Arabic مسجد أحمد البدوي, DMG Masǧid Aḥmad al-Badawī ) is a mosque in Tanta , northern Egypt . It is a Sufi mosque and it contains the mausoleum of the Sufi mystic Ahmad al-Badawi (around 1200–1276), the founder of the Tariqa Badawiyya (Ahmadiyya), the largest Sufi order in Egypt, who was born in Fez (Morocco) .

Ahmad Badawi Shrine inside the mosque in Tanta

Front view

The current mosque was built in the 19th century. The style of the funerary mosque with its three domes and two minarets is Ottoman .

It is an important Sunni pilgrimage site (see also Ziyāra ), to which up to three million pilgrims travel to its Maulid .

Web links

Commons : Ahmad-al-Badawi Mosque  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• The Light Illuminating Tanta ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Carnival in Tanta, BBC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In pictures: Egypt's biggest moulid. BBC News

Coordinates: 30 ° 47 '2.4 "  N , 30 ° 59" 56.4 "  E