Cairo
Athar al-Nabi, 'the relics of the Prophet ﷺ', was built in the early fourteenth century by the vizier Taj al-Din ibn Hanna, who acquired relics of the Prophet…
Athar al-Nabi, 'the relics of the Prophet ﷺ', was built in the early fourteenth century by the vizier Taj al-Din ibn Hanna, who acquired relics of the Prophet ﷺ and built a ribat on the Nile bank to house them. The relics were later moved to the dome of Sultan al-Ghuri and, in the nineteenth century, to the mosque of Sayyiduna al-Husayn, where they are kept today. The present mosque stands on the Nile bank south of Old Cairo, in the district that takes its name from it.