| | Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | The whole is enclosed on three sides in a Ziyada (The outer court of a mosque, common to congregational mosques in the early Islamic period) measuring 162 meters (530 feet) each side. |
 | | The mosque is built of red brick plastered with white stucco. |
 | | The mosque and its accompanying minaret are normally interpreted by modern scholars as architectural expressions of the power of a central authority over the provinces through the imposition of distinctive, foreign forms. |
| www.islamicarchitecture.org /architecture/ibntulunmosque.html (1119 words) |