Abu El Hagag Mosque
Abu El-Hagag Mosque
The mosque was built on a small square area and has a small dome. The entrance to the mosque is on the west side. It is well known that some changes were made to the mosque in the Ayyubid era. The mosque was built in the northeast area of Luxor temple. It probably dates back to the middle of the Fatimid era.
Inside the mosque, there is a niche of simple design that is free of ornaments. There is also a small grave in which Yousef Ibn Abdel-Raheem, known as Abu El-Hagag, was buried. On the top of the mosque, there is also a row of balconies that were built.
Moulid Abu el Haggag, Luxor Eastbank
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EGITTO - LUXOR la Moschea di Abū al-Hajjāj - il Souk بالأقصر مسجد ابو حجاج
°° By CLAUDIO MORTINI °° La Moschea di Abū al-Hajjāj è una moschea del XIII secolo, edificata nell'antica città di Luxor. Si trova situata sopra il tetto del Grande Cortile di Ramses II, all'interno dell'antico Tempio di Luxor ma, al contrario di quanto si potrebbe credere, la moschea fu edificata quando la massima parte del tempio egizio era ancora sepolto dalla sabbia.
Abū al-Hajjāj Yusuf (m. 1243) fu uno shaykh sufi nato a Baghdad novant'anni prima, ma che passò lunga parte della sua vita a Luxor in Egitto. Si ritiene che il minareto della moschea sia precedente, forse dell'XI secolo. La moschea fu ricostruita numerose volte, l'ultima nel XIX secolo. Abū al-Hajjāj è il santo protettore di Luxor e la sua moschea è il cuore di varie attività religiose.
Il Souk è il mercato, nulla di particolare, è vasto con tanta frutta ed altri generi, tanti colori e profumi, come in altre città egiziane!!
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Simone's Upper Egyptian Folklore Dance Holiday
Annual Stick Dancing/Fighting at El Hod in Luxor Town Centre Egypt.
Each year, for as long as anyone knows, this ad-hoc stick dancing festival has been the precursor of the Moulid of the famous Muslim saint Abu el Haggag, whose Mosque was built on top of Luxor's even more famous Temple. Participants travel from all over Upper Egypt to take part in the festival which used to last for up to four evenings, but sadly now continues for only two, from about 5pm till midnight-ish.
The Moulid takes place approximately 15 days before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This year (2014) the exciting and impressive procession will travel around the town tomorrow, 12th June.
EGYPT: Luxor Temple
Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes). It was constructed approximately 1400 BCE.
Unlike the other temples in Luxor, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the king in death. Instead Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the kings of Egypt were crowned.
To the rear of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty, and Alexander. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. During the Roman era, the temple and its surroundings were a legionary fortress and the home of the Roman government in the area. During the Roman period a chapel inside the Luxor Temple originally dedicated to goddess Mut was transformed in to a Tetrarchy cult chapel and later in to a church.
Luxor temple was built with sandstone. This sandstone from the Gebel el-Silsila region, which is located in South-Western Egypt, is referred to as Nubian Sandstone. This sandstone was used for the construction for monuments in Upper Egypt as well as in the course of past and current restoration works.
The Avenue of Sphinxes that links the Luxor and Karnak temples is being restored.
The Mosque of Abu Haggag stands atop the ruins of Luxor Temple, just inside the entrance.
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Impression of the original temple:
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Abu Hagag Carnival Luxor 23 June 2013
Historically during the June full moon is when the Nile would inundate. Back in Pharoenic times, this is when a large festival was help, with a parade between Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. In modern day, all the city's guilds have a float in the parade decorated in their particular trade. A felucca is mounted on wheels and drawn round the city. All the callesh drivers ride their horses in the streets. I was lucky to be invited to ride 3 - 4 times round the city on horseback and was the only european woman invited to do so. There was no policing. Christians rode along side muslims, and all enjoyed the day. Even though alcohol is widely available and cheap there is no drunkeness.
It was about 50 degress at 10am when the carnival started. Water stations were set up round the city for both horses and city folk. There was a wonderful warm breeze coming off the mountains and the streets were thronged with onlookers. Notice Luxor Temple and Abu Hagag Mosque in the background. Video shot from Ali Baba bar.
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Largely built by the New Kingdom pharaohs Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BC) and Ramses II (1279–1213 BC), this temple is a strikingly graceful monument in the heart of the modern town. Also known as the Southern Sanctuary, its main function was during the annual Opet celebrations, when the statues of Amun, Mut and Khonsu were brought from Karnak, along the Avenue of Sphinxes, and reunited here during the inundation.
Amenhotep III greatly enlarged an older shrine built by Hatshepsut, and rededicated the massive temple as Amun’s southern ipet (harem), the private quarters of the god. The structure was further added to by Tutankhamun, Ramses II, Alexander the Great and various Romans. The Romans constructed a military fort around the temple that the Arabs later called Al Uqsur (The Fortifications), which was later corrupted to give modern Luxor its name.
In ancient times the temple would have been surrounded by a warren of mud-brick houses, shops and workshops, which now lie under the modern town, but after the decline of the city people moved into the – by then – partly covered temple complex and built their city within it. In the 14th century, a mosque was built in one of the interior courts for the local sheikh (holy man) Abu Al Haggag. Excavation works, begun in 1885, have cleared away the village and debris of centuries to uncover what can be seen of the temple today, but the mosque remains and has been restored after a fire.
The temple is less complex than Karnak, but here again you walk back in time the deeper you go into it. In front of the temple is the beginning of the Avenue of Sphinxes that ran all the way to the temples at Karnak 3km to the north, and is now almost entirely excavated.
The massive 24m-high first pylon was raised by Ramses II and decorated with reliefs of his military exploits, including the Battle of Kadesh. The pylon was originally fronted by six colossal statues of Ramses II, four seated and two standing, but only two of the seated figures and one standing remain. Of the original pair of pink-granite obelisks that stood here, one remains while the other stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Beyond lies the Great Court of Ramses II, surrounded by a double row of columns with lotus-bud capitals, the walls of which are decorated with scenes of the pharaoh making offerings to the gods. On the south (rear) wall is a procession of 17 sons of Ramses II with their names and titles. In the northwestern corner of the court is the earlier triple-barque shrine built by Hatshepsut and usurped by her stepson Tuthmosis III for Amun, Mut and Khonsu. Over the southeastern side hangs the 14th-century Mosque of Abu Al Haggag, dedicated to a local sheikh, entered from Sharia Maabad Al Karnak, outside the temple precinct.
Beyond the court is the older, splendid Colonnade of Amenhotep III, built as the grand entrance to the Temple of Amun of the Opet. The walls behind the elegant open papyrus columns were decorated during the reign of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun and celebrate the return to Theban orthodoxy following the wayward reign of the previous pharaoh, Akhenaten. The Opet Festival is depicted in lively detail, with the pharaoh, nobility and common people joining the triumphal procession. Look out for the drummers and acrobats doing backbends.
South of the Colonnade is the Sun Court of Amenhotep III, once enclosed on three sides by double rows of towering papyrus-bundle columns, the best preserved of which, with their architraves extant, are those on the eastern and western sides. In 1989 workmen found a cache of 26 statues here, buried by priests in Roman times, now displayed in the Luxor Museum.
Beyond lies the Hypostyle Hall, the first room of the original Opet temple, with four rows of eight columns each, leading to the temple’s main rooms. The central chamber on the axis south of the Hypostyle Hall was the cult sanctuary of Amun, stuccoed over by the Romans in the 3rd century AD and painted with scenes of Roman officials: some of this is still intact and vivid. Through this chamber, either side of which are chapels dedicated to Mut and Khonsu, is the four-columned antechamber where offerings were made to Amun. Immediately behind the chamber is the Barque Shrine of Amun, rebuilt by Alexander the Great, with reliefs portraying him as an Egyptian pharaoh.
To the east a doorway leads into two rooms. The first is Amenhotep III’s 'birth room' with scenes of his symbolic divine birth. You can see the moment of his conception, when the fingers of the god touch those of the queen and ‘his dew filled her body’, according to the accompanying hieroglyphic caption. The Sanctuary of Amenhotep III is the last chamber; it still has the remains of the stone base on which Amun’s statue stood, and although it was once the most sacred part of the temple, the busy street that now runs directly behind it makes it less atmospheric.
Luxor Mosque
Interesting view of mosque of Luxor, alongside the Nile River. The chanting noise in the background is the call to worship on the first day of Ramadan, SEPT 1, 2008,
Egyptians mark Moulid in special way
On Tuesday, Muslims around the world mark the birthday of the Prophet Mohamed. Egyptians celebrate the day with a special kind of confectionery called Moulid sweets. Made of nuts, sesame seeds and halva, Egypt has become famous for these sweet treats. Adel EL Mahrouky has more.
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Abu el-Haggag Mosque
The wonderful work of architecture that incorporates ancient Egyptian and Arab cultures in one wonderous building. I do not own any of this material, I merely edited it together to present a video of what I beleive to be a lesser-known wonder of the world.
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a zikr tent at the first night of the moulid abu el haggag. if you want to get your own moulid-experience, check out the next dates of my Let's go to the Moulid-Trip on my website!
Luxor Temple Night
This CAVEcam was shot in the Luxor Temple showing the First Court of Ramesses II and the 14th Century Mosque of Abu al-Haggag, at night. See: and
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Abu El Haggags Mulid
Denne fest er den vigtigste i Luxor og er en af de kendteste i Øvre Egypten. Den afholdes den 14. i måneden Shaaban til minde om sheik Abu el-Haggag, der døde 1243. Han er gravsat i Abu el-Haggag moskeen, der er placeret midt i Luxor Templet. Festen varer flere dage og samler op mod en million mennesker.
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Ahmad Najam Mosque in Luxor, 30/09/09.
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some more impressions of the zikr of the first night of the moulid.
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night tahtib at the moulid abu el haggag in Luxor. amazing atmosphere! See it with your own eyes at my next tour to the moulid!
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