The Complex of Sultan Qaytbay situates in one of the side street few meters away from the Tom of Barquq and the Complex of Barsbay known as El-Suq Street. It can be reached also from Salah Salem Street, El-Qarafaa. This complex is erected by Sultan Qaytbay, one of the great constructors in Egypt who is credited to renovating and erecting a large number of buildings that still exist. There are about seventeen monumental places all over Egypt immortalizing his name till now including the Sabil-Kuttab Wikala and Hod of Qaytbay in El-Shaykh Mohammed Abdu Street. He was one of the prominent Mamluks at the time of Sultan Barsbay and he managed to rise to the rank of Chief of the Army in a very short period. Qaytbay assumed the power of Egypt in the period from 1468 to 1496 till his death at the ...
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