The Mosque of AlTinbugha Ibn Abdallah El-Maridani lies in Bab El Wazir Street in El Darb El Ahmar District. Prince El-Tinbugha Ibn Abdallah El-Maridani was the son-in-law of Sultan El-Nasir Muhammad and the governor Aleppo and he died in 1341.
The façade of the mosque consists of two panels finely decorated with Quran inscriptions. There are two windows in each panel. Next to the main entrance of the mosque, one can find the Minaret with some square shafts or Mabkhara at its end and some pendentives and geometric patterns that were used later in most of the minarets.
The mosque has three entrances and the first one appears northward the façade. It is placed in a handsome recess, supported by a beautiful stalactite frieze and ornamented with black and white marble.
The interior ...
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