mosques on the banknotes
[25 piasters from 1977 with Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Nahdet Masr sculpture]
As the value of the Egyptian pound continues to fall, it maybe a good time to take a close look at those one pound bills as they may disappear soon. Not long ago bills for fifty and twenty-five piasters were common in daily use, today such bills, if encountered, are kept for souvenir.
All the current bills from the 25 Piaster to the 200 pound have mosques from Cairo on one side. All these monuments are located within walking distance in the heart of historic Cairo, makes for a nice day out.
Here is a map showing the bills with the corresponding mosques:
LE100 Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa مسجد السلطان حسن
LE50 Abu Hariba Mosque مسجد أبو حريبة
LE20 Muhammad Ali Mosque مسجد محمد على
LE10 al-Rifai` Mosque مسجد الرفاعى
LE5 Ibn Tulun Mosque مسجد أحمد بن طولون
LE1 Sultan Qaitbey مسجد السلطان قايتباى
50 Piasters al-Azhar Mosque المسجد الأزهر
25 Piasters Sayyeda Aisha Mosque مسجد السيدة عائشة
18 notes
-
milibandwagon likes this
-
sondosseif likes this
-
ensankhorda reblogged this from ahmadalaa
-
ensankhorda likes this
-
shades-grey reblogged this from thearabicculturetrain and added:
معلومة تهمك .. اقروا :D
-
thearabicculturetrain reblogged this from cairobserver
-
mervilous reblogged this from cairobserver
-
mervilous likes this
-
ahmadalaa reblogged this from cairobserver and added:
[25 piasters from 1977 with Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Nahdet Masr sculpture] As the value of the Egyptian pound continues to...
-
ahmadalaa likes this
-
dwgparallels reblogged this from cairobserver
-
dwgparallels likes this
-
wanderlust-am-weiten-weg likes this
-
astoriaugly likes this
-
mohamedwagdy likes this
-
archexcerpts likes this
-
fatma-khaled likes this
-
lahooz reblogged this from cairobserver
-
cairobserver posted this
