Cairo, Egypt

Museum of Islamic Art

Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo

Housed in a neo-Mamluk building completed in 1902, Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art holds over 100,000 objects spanning the 7th to 19th centuries. Its 25 halls display rare manuscripts, metalwork, glass, ceramics, and gilded mosque lamps from across the Islamic world.

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Coordinates: 30.04472, 31.25278

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