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The Egyptian Takiyya was a public kitchen built in Makkah by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1238 AH, as an inscription around the dome over its ablution fountain…
The Egyptian Takiyya was a public kitchen built in Makkah by Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1238 AH, as an inscription around the dome over its ablution fountain recorded. It stood in the Ajyad street facing the southern side of Masjid al-Haram, on the site of Dar al-Sa'adah, the earlier seat of government of the sharifs of the Zayd family. Every morning and evening the poor came for bread and soup, a few hundred on ordinary days and up to 4,000 in the months from Ramadan to the end of Dhu al-Hijjah, when poor pilgrims arrived from Sudan, North Africa and elsewhere. The takiyya had its own mill turned by mules, a kitchen with eight great cauldrons, a bakery and stores, and the officials of the Egyptian mahmal stayed there during Hajj. The building no longer stands, and its site lies about 115 metres south of the Ka'bah, within the enlarged mosque.