Artist

B.L. Singley

Nationality

American

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Medium

Stereoscopic Slide

Height

3.5

Width

7

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.

Status

Stored: SS-Box-JSP-1

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Additional Information

A man sits on the floor in the middle of a large room. The room contains vaulted ceilings, decorated walls, and large chandeliers.

Text on front left:

Keystone View Company

Manufacturers Publishers

Copyright 1899, by

B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A.

Text on front below image:

9788 - Mosque of Mohammed Ali. Interior, Cairo, Egypt.

Text on front right:

Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.

Text on back:

102

Fascinating Cairo! centre of Moslem culture for 1,000 years seat of El-Azhar, the oldest university in the world, with 10,000 students instructed without charge, and even fed if they are poor. are its chief interest today; but a millennium of wonderful history and romance gives a fascination to the place like that of the Arabian Nights. The present polyglot population of Cairo and its suburbs is nearly 600,000 souls.

The Mosque of Sultan Hassan, begun in 1356, is pronounced the gem of the Moslem artistic world. The American consul and author, Frederic Courtland Penfield, in his charming volume, "Present-Day Egypt," considers it superior to St. Sophia at Constantinople and calls its great dome "a liberal education in architecture."

The mosque seen in this view is known as the Alabaster Mosque because its columns and mural decorations are of alabaster. The interior is richly adorned and brilliantly lighted. The mosque was begun in 1824 by Mohammed Ali, founder of the present Egyptian dynasty; his tomb is in one corner surrounded by a railing.

Ascending the Nile by steamboat or dahabiyeh or skirting it by train, for 350 miles, we are at Luxor, a world's wonder.

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Good

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