The Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan is right across the street from the 19th Century Al-Rifa'i Mosque in Salah Al-Din Square. There are no metro stations within a walking distance, so hailing ...

The mosque leader, Sheikh Usama Al-Rifa’i, who is more than 80 years old, was assaulted with sticks in the melée, and left with his head and hand injured. A foreign website shows the sheikh in ...

Date 2024-05-12 02:17:08 (MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the Sayyida Zainab Mosque on Sunday following its restoration and rehabilitation.

Quiet sobs echo through the atrium of the Al-Rifai Mosque in Cairo, where rows of seated mourners are surrounded by wreathes of white flowers. Women dab their heavily made-up eyes, while men stare ...

However, mosque attacks are relatively rare in Egypt.In October 2015, 224 people were killed when a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula.

They said gunmen then entered the mosque and fired at those inside.The attackers had also set up "ambush" locations and opened fire on ambulances as they transported the wounded to al-Arish before the ...