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HANDS ON Traditional Crafts at The City of the Dead in Cairo

Tomb of Gulshayni (No.100), CA A.D.1468 / 873 A.H.

The tomb is believed to have been built for Qaytbay before he became sultan, and later incorporated into his larger complex. The present name comes from an Ottoman period Sufi shaykh (apparently a different person from Shaykh al-Gulshayni who is buried in a takiya near Bab Zuwayla). The small stone dome set on a very simple single-stepped octagonal zone-of-transition is decorated in carved floral patterns similar to those on the dome over the tomb of Sultan Qaitbay, also of exquisite craftsmanship, although in al-Gulshayni they are much simpler.

This website is a result of a conservation and research project at the Hawd of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey in Cairo's City of the Dead. The project was financed by the European Union Delegation to Egypt with a contribution from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and implemented in 2014 by Cairo-based ARCHiNOS Architecture in association with the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo under supervision of the Ministry of Antiquities and Heritage.

The web site is funded, produced, and designed by ARCHiNOS Architecture.

Website designed in 2014 by Maha Akl for ARCHiNOS Architecture.

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