The Mosque of Sultan Baybars I locates in the El Zaher Square few meters away from El-Abbasiya Street. It can be reached also through the street of Sharia Port Said in which the Complex of El Qadi Yahya stands. The Husayniya quarter was once full of luxuriously decorated buildings that disappeared now because of earthquakes and other factors and the remaining parts were restored in the dynasty of Mohamed Ali .
This mosque was established by Sultan Baybars I who ruled Egypt for about 17 years and then was poisoned in Damascus. He was one of the great fighters and rulers who managed to defeat the Mongols and the Crusaders in the battle of Ain Galut or Goliath's spring. He is credited to returning Antoic from the European colonizers and controlling over the Crusader's Le Crac des Chevaliers...
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