AL ASHRAFIYA MOSQUE

This is the only mosque that can be visited. It was built in two stages. From 1295 to 1297, Ashraf I built the prayer room, which is covered by a large dome surrounded by eight smaller domes, with two minarets. The interior domes are finely decorated and painted. The walls are decorated with ciselé stucco. The yard, in the back, is embellished with abeilles patterns. Ashraf II (1376-1400) added the external gallery, closed by a very beautiful portal that still exists. The courtyard contains the graves of these two kings. It was Imam Ahmed who, in an impulse of austerity, made stucco and ceiling brush. The restoration of interior decorations has just finished. The visitor can photograph them from the door of the prayer room. Climbing over the mosque is no longer allowed. The graves of the wife and the children of the founder of the old mosque are in the courtyard of aux whose geometric construction is very interesting. The plush, beautifully painted domes prayer room. Today madrasas still exists. It has many architectural similarities with the mosques of the city of City, in the Tihama.