Imam Hussein bin Ali Mosque in Cairo, Egypt is a mosque located in Old Cairo in the neighborhood named after the Imam (Al-Hussein Neighborhood). Also next to the mosque are the famous Khan Al-Khalili and Al-Azhar Mosque.
History of the mosque
The mosque was built during the era of the Fatimids in the year 549 AH, corresponding to the year 1154 AD, under the supervision of Minister Al-Saleh Tala’i. The mosque includes 3 doors built of white marble overlooking Khan Al-Khalili, and another door next to the dome, known as the Green Door.
The mosque was given this name based on the accounts of a section of Egyptian historians about the presence of the head of Hussein bin Ali buried there. These accounts mention that with the beginning of the Crusades, the ruler of Egypt, the Fatimid Caliph, feared the harm that might befall the noble head in its first place in the city of Ashkelon in Palestine, so he sent He requests that the head be brought to Egypt and the honorable head be carried to Egypt and buried in its current location and the mosque built over it.