Al-Mu'izz Street

[1] The street's prestige also attracted the construction of many monumental religious and charitable buildings commissioned by Egypt's rulers and elites, making it a dense repository of historic Islamic architecture in Cairo.

[4][3] After the demise of the Fatimid regime in 1171 under Salah ad-Din (Saladin), the city was opened up to common people and underwent major transformations.

The seat of power and residence of Egypt's rulers also moved from here to the newly constructed Citadel to the south, begun by Salah ad-Din in 1176.

The Khan al-Khalili commercial district developed on the Qasaba's eastern side and, partly because there was no more room to expand along that street, stretched further east towards the Mosque/shrine of al-Hussein and the Mosque of al-Azhar.

[4] Even with the removal of the royal residences, however, its symbolic importance endured and it remained one of the most prestigious sites to erect the mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and other monumental buildings commissioned by the sultans and the high elites of the regimes.

[1] Today, the old city is, to some extent, split into two by this major road cutting across the former urban fabric, passing between the Khan al-Khalili area and the 16th-century Sultan al-Ghuri complex.

Buildings higher than the level of monuments have been brought down in height and painted an appropriate colour, while the street has been repaved in the original style.

Al-Mu'izz Street, section of Bayn al-Qasrayn .
Bab al-Futuh , the Fatimid city gate at the northern end of al-Muizz street.
The Complex of Sultan Qalawun (front) and the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Barquq .
Al-Muizz street passing between the two wings of the Sultan al-Ghuri complex .
Map of the northern part of Muizz Street
AL-Muizz Street today, in the centre of historic Cairo.