The Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Cairo Citadel: Built between 1830 and 1848, the mosque has a pure central-domed plan with two slender pencil minarets. Its surface articulation contrasts sharply in its eclecticism with its structural straightforwardness. The mosque is a rhetorical composition designed to emulate the early style of royal Ottoman mosques of Istanbul. The initial design of the mosque by the French architect Pascal Coste was to apply a neo-Mamluk style. Coste designed two mosques for Muhammad Ali: one in Alexandria and the Citadel mosque. Neither was ever built.

 

General view of the Mosque on top of the Citadel of Cairo.   Side facade of the Mosque showing the central and side domes.     The ablution fountain in the center of the courtyard and the clock tower of Napoleon III in the background.   The facade of the Alexandria mosque designed by the French architect Pascal Coste.

 

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