it is situated at the end of sayyida aisha street near the qaytbay gate at a distance of 30 meters on the right of sayyida nafissa,s mashhad and to the south of sayyida aisha,s mosque and to the left of the small cemetery.
sultan jaqmaq ordered it to be closed in 485 A.H./1441 A.D.,then Qaytbay renewed it in 889 A.H./1493 A.D.It was named BAB AL-QARAFA because people used to go through it toward the small cemetry.
the gate is composed of a wide recess topped with a pointed arch and chamfered from the inside to match the side chamfering followed by another smaller pointed arch the leg of the first arch and extending to the in side in the shape of a pointed vault .
on the side of the entrance are to small recesses one on each side each topped with a pointed arch .
those two recesses are disappearing the ground. between the two spandrels of the entrance from the inside are remains of two pendentives and of another leg,s arch indicating that the vestibule which used to be at the entrance was covered by a shallow circular dome.
sultan jaqmaq ordered it to be closed in 485 A.H./1441 A.D.,then Qaytbay renewed it in 889 A.H./1493 A.D.It was named BAB AL-QARAFA because people used to go through it toward the small cemetry.
the gate is composed of a wide recess topped with a pointed arch and chamfered from the inside to match the side chamfering followed by another smaller pointed arch the leg of the first arch and extending to the in side in the shape of a pointed vault .
on the side of the entrance are to small recesses one on each side each topped with a pointed arch .
those two recesses are disappearing the ground. between the two spandrels of the entrance from the inside are remains of two pendentives and of another leg,s arch indicating that the vestibule which used to be at the entrance was covered by a shallow circular dome.
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