Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826

Coste, Pascal Xavier
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Wakala-Sabil-Sabil-Kuttab of Qa'it Bay
Sabil-Kuttab and Wikala of Qaytbay
Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qayt Bay
Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qayt-Bay
Sabil-Kuttab-Wakala of Sultan Qaytbay
Sultan Qaytbay Sabil-Kuttab and Wakala Complex at Al-Azhar
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The earliest stand-alone Sabil-Kuttab in Cairo, it establishes the type as a pietistic endowment in the urban milieu without it being attached to a larger religious complex.
 
exterior, wakala portal, "Vue de la Porte de l'Okel Kaid-Bey," color plate XLII of Pascal Coste's "Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826", 1818-1826
 
Type of Work
School (building); Book; Welfare building; Wakala
Subject
Merchants, Schools, Warehouses, Architectural drawings, Commercial buildings, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt -- Description and travel, Manuscripts, Lodging-houses, Commerce, Islamic religious education, Wakalas, Sabil-kuttabs, Travelers, Architecture, Islamic --Egypt, Art, Islamic, Qa'it Bay, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, d. 1496, Public welfare, Lithography, French, Portals, Muqarnas, Decoration and ornament, Islamic, Ablaq
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