al-Hakim mosque
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The al-Hakim Mosque ( Arabic مسجد الحاكم بأمر الله Masjid al-Ḥākim bi Amr Allāh , also al-Anwar Mosque ) is a large mosque in the Egyptian city of Cairo . It is named after al-Hakim , the 6th Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismailite - Imam of the Fatimids . It was another mosque in Cairo next to the already existing al-Azhar mosque , the religious center of the Ismailite school. Hakim was the first Fatimid ruler to bebornin Egypt .
During the Crusades , the mosque was used as a prison. Under Saladin the mosque served as a stable and under Napoleon as a fortress. After the building was used as a school, the building remained unused. From the 1980s, however, the mosque, which had previously been in ruins, was rebuilt as a new building, with the preserved parts such as Koran inscriptions and cornices being integrated into the new building. The rebuilding took place under the auspices of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin from the group of Dawudi Bohras , an Ismaili sect from India .
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Coordinates: 30 ° 3 ′ 16.3 ″ N , 31 ° 15 ′ 49.3 ″ E