The Hanging Mosque

The Hanging Mosque in El Fayoum was so named because Prince Suliman Ben Hatem (also known as Soliman Ibn Mouhamed), Governor of Fayoum, built it on a hill during the first years of the Ottoman Period, in 1375. Some of the mosque's blocks were taken from earlier Pharaonic and Greco-Roman buildings. The mosque comprises a double flight of stairs leading to the main door.