Coiros’ famous Doorknockers

At the south end of Al-Muizz Al-Deen Street, there are two minarets that tower over the gates of Fatimid Cairo. This is Bab Zuweila, built as the south gate to the city in the 11th century. Its twin spires were added in the 15th century when the Mu’ayyad Mosque that sits just inside of the gate on the west side of the street was built by the Mamluk Sultan Mu’ayyad Sayf Ad-Din Sheikh. The Building included a Mosque and madrasa for four madhhabs. The story goes that the door, which is at the main entrance of Mu’ayyad Mosque used to be the former portal of Sultan Hassan mosque. On some ways the marvelous bronze portal, got sold of to the Sultan Mu’ayyad, who added it to his own mosque.