ABU MANDOUR MOSQUE IN ROSETTA ACCORDING TO EUROPEAN TRAVELERS (17-19 AD), AN ANALYTICAL STUDY

Abstract

Abu Mandour Mosque is located next to the Abu Mandour area, south of Rosetta in Beheira Governorate. It is a group of sand hills in the form of a mountain peak. The mosque was part of a corner (Zawiyat Abu Mandour) that was located in the east and overlooking the Nile River, but it was rebuilt in its place.

The research covers Archaeological and analytical study about Abu Mandour Mosque in the writings and paintings of European travelers 17-19 century AD.

It is important to shed light on this important historical site through the writings and paintings of European travelers during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, who spoke about this mosque in a study, and to provide an analytical study of the writings and paintings of a group of European travelers: Gravier Etienne (1685), Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1777), Luigi Mayer (1801), Dominique Vivant Denon (1802), John Elliott Woolford (1803), Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1807), Edouard de Montule (1818-1819), Edward William Lane (1828), Adrien Douzats (1830), Charles Theodor Frere (1869, and Louis Thurman (1902).

The research includes three axes, including:the location of the mosque, the creator and date of creation, Abu Mandour Mosque in the writings and paintings of European travelers, and a comparative analytical study of the traveler’s drawings with the modern construction of the mosque.