Sultan Hassan Mosque
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 | Sultan Hassan Mosque |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
| Date | 1356 to 1363 |
| Building Type | temple |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Islamic |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | "Regular forms within an irregular composition" -Ching |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Sultan_Hassan_Mosque.html |
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"The Medresa of Sultan Hassan at Cairo...is a collegiate mosque, cruciform in plan. Four iwans, or recessed porches, with immense pointed arches, constitute the arms of the cross. There is a minimum of decoration, and the walls of the 100-ft sahn rise skywards with splendid architectural effect. The founder's domed mausoleum, situated behind the qibla, is enriched with stalactite decoration."
— John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. p133.
"...it has survived largely intact, though its dome, ablutions fountain, and minaret have been reconstructed and its main doors taken elsewhere. An immense portal with an elaborate muqarnas-headed opening gives access to a majestic, domed entrance hall from which a tortuous approach leads obliquely into the central court...The tomb of the founder stands on the axis of the building, behind the mihrab, and in the centre of he court an elaborate domed fountain with wide eaves suggests the hand of the Syrians and other northern artisan who were brought in at this time."
— Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p570.
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Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. plan, p63.— A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection.PCD.2260.1012.1537.071. PCD.2260.1012.1537.070. PCD.2260.1012.1537.069
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p570. section drawing, fig d, p566.
Abdallah Kahil. The Sultan Hasan Complex 1357-1364: A Case Study in the Formation of Mamluk Style. The Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society, Beirut and Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 2008. ISBN 978-3-89913-643-2.
Abdallah Kahil. “The Architect/s of the Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo,” Artibus Asiae vol. LXVI, No. 2, 2006, pp. 155-174.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. New York: Random House, 1975. ISBN 0-394-49887-9. NA200.G76. discussion, p133. photo of interior, p133. Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Henri Stierlin. Comprendre L'Architecture Universelle. Paris: Office du Livre S.A. Fribourg (suisse), 1977. longitudinal section drawing, p364. plan drawing, p364. [DP]
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986. photo of courtyard, f342, p221.
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