Commander Ibrahim Mosque, one of the most famous mosques built in Alexandria in the Raml Station area, in Egypt. The mosque is famous for its tall, graceful minaret and also attracts worshipers from all neighborhoods of Alexandria, especially in the month of Ramadan. Its construction dates back to 1948 and was designed by the Italian architect residing in Egypt, Mario Rossi.
History of the mosque.
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The mosque existed at the end of the 1940s, and you can see Mahattat El Raml Square at that time, which contains this mosque, through the Alexandria Albums section of historical photos.
In 1948, this mosque was erected on the centenary of the death of Commander Ibrahim Pasha bin Muhammad Ali Pasha, the former leader of Egypt and the founder of the modern Egyptian military. The mosque was designed by an engineer of Italian origin who held the position of chief endowment engineer following a competition held for that purpose, and he became in charge of the work of palaces and mosques during the reign of King Fouad I. Before that, one of the greatest mosques in Alexandria, the Marsa Abu Abbas Mosque, had been renovated.
Description of the mosque.
Commander Ibrahim Mosque has selected decorations from different eras and has a graceful, high minaret, which is also distinguished from its lower minaret by the presence of a clock in it. Next to the mosque is an event hall belonging to the mosque. The mosque overlooks the Alexandria Corniche and the headquarters of the Alexandria Family Health Center (formerly Suzanne Mubarak), which was previously the headquarters of the UNICEF Regional Center and a garden. Immortals, in addition to the famous Raml Station Square and the Faculty of Medicine at Alexandria University.
His relationship with the month of Ramadan.
The mosque is considered one of the most famous mosques, if not the most famous at all, for performing Tarawih and Tahajjud prayers in the month of Ramadan in the city. Worshipers come from many areas of the city, and the number of worshipers during Ramadan, especially in the last ten days, reaches thousands, and worshipers gather around the mosque to Raml Station Square, Safia Zaghloul Square, and the Corniche, where traffic is disrupted and some streets are closed due to the large number of worshipers, especially in the last ten days of the month of Ramadan.