Al Azhar Mosque, Built in 10th century, Al Azhar Mosque is one of the oldest Islamic monuments in Cairo. It is located in old part of Cairo, also known as Islamic Cairo. Al Azhar Mosque is a seat ...

The area around Al Azhar mosque is home to crowded markets and ... into an attempted attack against a police patrol in western Cairo on Friday. When the officers caught the militant, "one of ...

But under the new constitution, that is exactly what the millennium-old mosque and university ... once it has spoken. At al-Azhar’s modern office complex in central Cairo, where business is ...

CAIRO — They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque. The faithful had come to pray, to hear a ...

Francis has met the grand imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque after a five-year pause in dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the mosque, the highest authority of Sunni Islam. Sheikh Ahmed ...

But inofficially, the ancient and respected al-Azhar University in Cairo would be a good place ... world's 1.4 billion Muslims -- the most influential mosque. No fatwas are more observed than ...

The video below shows a huge demonstration within the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, with worshippers chanting a famous slogan vowing to protect the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. “We sacrifice our ...

The US First Lady Jill Biden visited Al-Azhar Mosque on Friday, as part of her official visit to Egypt and… Photos: UK’s Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla arrive in Egypt as part of their ...

Named after the mosque in Cairo’s medieval quarter, it was founded by the Shi’ite Fatimid Dynasty in 970 AD and was formally organised by 988 AD. Al-Azhar’s educational format remained relatively ...