View from Cairo

It was a bit startling for me to arrive in a city with so many mosques. Every where you turn is a mosque at least a hundred years old, and often significantly older - two hundred, three hundred, five hundred, even a thousand. Jordan, which is essentially only 100 years old (the population was little more than two thousand in 1900) feels like freshly-built suburb.

In this picture there are three cathedral-sized mosques visible, Sultan Hasan Mosque on the left, directly opposite Rifai mosque, and in the distance, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha.