Cairo, looking S.W. across city to Pyramids that furnished stone for many of its buildings. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view. 'That high-walled building at the extreme left is the mosque of Rifa'iyeh. Between the dome with the peak awry and the distant sand-hills you notice a horizontal whitish streak—that is the court of the oldest mosque in Cairo, built in 877-879 A.D. by Ibn Tulun, the first inde...