AL-AZHAR

Al-Azhar, which was established more than a thousand years beacon of enlightened Islamic thought, was the whole University and the Foundation for Education, Science and Research in Science and lower debt, opening its doors to students and scholars of the Muslims all over the world.

Al Azhar is the body of scientific Islamic-based conservation Islamic thought, study and publication, and carrying the message to all Islamic peoples. Archived nation and the Islamic Al Azhar Al-Sharif this stature, and characterized Egypt earned him a special place in the Islamic world

The date of establishment of Al-Azhar :

The establishment of Al-Azhar "Gawhar the Sicilian" army commander of, "al-moez l-den Allah Fatimids" in the south-east of the city of Cairo and took a constructive two years. And where prayers were held for the first time in the 17th of the month of Ramadan in 260 e 972 m approved.
Today, the Al-Azhar Mosque and the old more than a thousand years is not the whole mosque Fatimids origin, but is the result of additions of construction included in the required sequence, it was Azhar first dish was composed of the current overdraft mosque and praying open house, which was located to the north Dish current and had two Ayman easier, and the two buildings, was in each of the right and left sides of three corridors, and then successive additions and increases and added new corridors of the building until today Azhar became a museum of Islamic art in Egypt.