Al-Zahir Mosque or Al-Zahir Baybars Mosque is one of the mosques of historic Cairo, established by King Al-Zahir Baybars Al-Bandaqari in the year 665 AH.
King Al-Zahir Baybars set out to build this mosque in the year 665 AH in his field in which he used to play with the ball, and completed it in the year 667 AH, and made the rest of the square a waqf on the mosque. When the French came to Egypt,
They installed cannons in it and made it a fortress.
Then, in the era of Muhammad Ali, it turned into a camp for the Senegalese Takarna sect, then into a soap factory, and finally turned into an altar during the era of the English occupation.
This mosque was mentioned in the History of Al-Maqrizi, and this mosque is considered one of the largest mosques in Cairo, with an area of ​​103 by 106 meters, only its outer walls and some arches of the qibla portico. Time also preserved many of its decorative details, whether stucco or engraved in stone.