At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
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Overview
The al-Jami' al-Jadid al-Nasiri, the New Mosque built by al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun outside Misr at Mawrid al-Hulfa 1.
The ground around it
The land where the mosque stands had become sand when the Nile receded from it. Princes built houses there in the days of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub, and when al-Nasir built his mosque he developed the ground around it 1.
The Nasiri canal
When al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun dug the Nasiri canal, the quarter between al-Maqs and al-Dakka widened, and people built gardens, houses, markets, mosques, baths and granaries there 2.
The money refused back
Al-Maqrizi says that Fakhr al-Din refused to take back four hundred thousand dirhams that the sultan had returned to him, and said: let him build a mosque with it. So the Nasiri mosque, now known as the New Mosque, was built with it outside Misr at Mawrid al-Hulfa 3.
Sources
- Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.831
- Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.1037
- Al-Maqrizi, al-Mawaiz wa-l-i'tibar bi-dhikr al-khitat wa-l-athar (al-Khitat al-Maqriziyya), ed. Muhammad Zaynhum and Madiha al-Sharqawi (Cairo: Maktabat Madbuli, 1998) , p.2099
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Jami' al-Jadid al-Nasiri (the New Mosque outside Misr)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/al-jami-al-jadid-al-nasiri/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-24.